Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

An asteroid hit Earth and burned up in the atmosphere ... Cagayan at the northern tip of the Philippines shows a flickering ...

What time is the first full moon of 2025? Here's when the Wolf Moon will peak This Sunday, January 12, the asteroid (887) Alinda, which measures about 4.2 kilometers in diameter, can be seen from ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

The fridge-sized DART spacecraft successfully knocked the asteroid well off course ... Aviation Administration gave the last-minute green light, saying the nature of the problem posed little ...