When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a ...

Scientists say 3I/Atlas came closest to Mars in October. Its path this month put it in the path of the warm rays of our sun, where a tail became more visible. The 3.5-mile solar object is traveling at ...

NASA is tracking five asteroids, varying in size from a small bus to an airplane, passing Earth safely in mid-November 2025.

The Psyche probe captures images of Earth and the Moon from over 180 million miles away as it travels to intercept an ...

Tianwen 1 has spotted the solar system's latest interstellar intruder from Mars orbit. China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has ...

Taken together, the 3I/ATLAS mystery goes beyond astrophysics. It is a test for the new human era — one that demands transparency, cooperation, and the courage to accept that the universe may be more ...