The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Astronomy often focuses on objects that are vast distances from Earth – stars that are light-years away, galaxies that are ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

NASA is monitoring a house-sized asteroid that will pass near Earth on August 16 at a speed of approximately 17,717 miles per ...

3I/ATLAS was discovered by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July, and is just the third ...

Meteorite that tore through southeastern US skies this summer determined to be older than Earth itself, researchers say ...

Discover the 4.56-billion-year-old McDonough Meteorite, a rare stony meteorite that shook Georgia with a sonic boom, now ...

In a Friday news release, University of Georgia planetary geologist Scott Harris announced his findings after studying 23 ...

A meteorite that crashed through a Georgia home roof in June has been identified as billions of years old and older than the ...