A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

Speculations about an alleged Planetary Defence Initiative stemmed from the International Asteroid Warning Network Campaign ...

NASA has activated its planetary defence network to monitor comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object showing unusual ...

According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

Asteroid 2025 TF passed Earth above Antarctica (Nasa) Another small asteroid dubbed 2025 TQ2 also flew within Earth's vicinity the same day after 2025 TF's approach, according to the Minor Planet ...

Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. NASA confirmed this week that the rock, ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...