A July flyby of a massive asteroid went undetected until two days after it passed, raising urgent questions about planetary ...

On October 31, 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew by Earth. It arrived with excellent timing on Halloween, ...

On October 31, 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew by Earth. It arrived with excellent timing on Halloween, ...

Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling ...

Astronomers worldwide are intensely studying 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object entering our solar system. Its ...

Physicist Michio Kaku says interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may reveal signs of intelligent life if it gains energy near the Sun.

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

TN2, the largest of four, will safely pass Earth today at 1.34 million km. There is no threat from it, said NASA.

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

View post: REI's Wind and Water-Resistant Hiking Jacket Is Nearly $70 Off Right Now Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have caused serious damage ...