The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on nearly 40,000 large objects out there with the hope of avoiding the fate of ...

Psyche, spanning 173 miles (280 km) at its widest, stands out in the asteroid belt. Long thought to be the exposed metallic ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.