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

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s far side have unveiled moon dust containing a rare pre-solar ...

Scientists out of the Pan-STARRs observatory in Hawaii discovered the new quasi-moon on Aug. 29, according to CNN and ABC ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

Scouts is an unusual entry into the storied sci-fi franchise in a number of ways. Here's when it might take place on the ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered early this year by one of the telescopes on — you guessed it — Mount Lemmon, where ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...