Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

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The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

NASA’s DART mission, scheduled for launch in July 2021, will test one strategy by slamming a half-ton spacecraft built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) into an approaching ...

THOUSANDS of tourists cancelled trips to Japan — over predictions of a huge disaster in a graphic novel. The manga comic ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. The European Space ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar ...