Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Asteroids from the Earth pass by all the time but we are expecting a friendly visitor staying around for the next couple ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

The Earth will soon have a second companion alongside the moon. According to US astrophysicists, the asteroid known as "2024 ...

New research suggests that small asteroid collisions could potentially alter Apophis’s trajectory, raising concerns about future risks.

A 120-foot asteroid, similar in size to a small plane, is set to make a close flyby of Earth today. While it will pass within ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies.

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...