Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

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

To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...

This year, the internet has taken great interest in 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object ever detected, though also ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the discovery of the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, a lot more are still out there.

European Space Agency says milestone highlights both Earth’s vulnerability and advances in planetary-defense science - ...

An interstellar trespasser known as 3I/ATLAS is almost certainly a comet. So, why do so many people think it's ...

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...