NASA has discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently holds the record for the highest impact probability ever recorded. As ...

Asteroids 2026 LD and 2026 KM3, both comparable in size to airplanes, will make a close approach to Earth on June 9, 2026.

Astronomers don’t treat every “close approach” headline the same way the public does. On June 9, two near-Earth objects, 2026 ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

Asteroids, on the other hand, are leftovers from the early solar system that formed closer to the Sun. They are dry and rocky, and do not have the same ices that give comets their characteristic tails ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

Could this Soviet-era spacecraft be pretending to be a "dark comet?" The post Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is ...

Every year, a prize is awarded to a young scientist working on one of the most important problems our civilization faces: ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus ...

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.