What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until ...

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Contrary to allegations that 31/ATLAS is potentially hostile alien tech, the Manhattan-sized comet could provide potentially ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

A collision with a roughly 96-kilometer asteroid would guarantee global extinction, and programs like NASA’s DART test plus ...

Researchers at the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) have discovered a population of asteroids that could pose a very ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

It’s hard to believe, but some reports circulating on social media say there are two moons and there will be for several ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...