"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

A massive asteroid will experience earthquake-like tremors when it makes a historic close approach to Earth in 2029, ...

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but ...

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to ... This big space rock is much larger than almost all others ever found cruising inside the moon’s orbit. It’s common to see asteroids measuring ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua ...

But as a mini-moon, Asteroid 2024 PT5 isn’t in any danger of colliding with Earth now or over the next few decades, de la Fuente Marcos said. The space rock will orbit about 2.6 million miles (4 ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Earth (bottom left) and the moon (upper right) as viewed by Hera's HyperScout H instrument. Credit: ESA Hera will rendezvous with the impacted asteroid ... relatively small rocks are still ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

The license covers the Odin mission, which will launch in early 2025 on board the next Intuitive Machines moon launch.