Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

On Nov. 28, 2018, former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, ...

In 2018, Gwyneth Paltrow said, "I went to do a yoga class in LA recently, and the 22-year-old girl behind the counter was ...

Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of ...

This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...

A mysterious explosion lit up the Canary Islands before dawn. XYJ-7 satellite reentering the atmosphere caused a huge shockwave.

A DEADLY missile was spotted hurtling through space only hours after narrowly missing Earth last week. Now, the United Nations is taking action. The 400m asteroid's passing was fortuitous in some ways ...