When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

What was believed to be a new asteroid spotted flying close to our planet this month turned out to have Earthly, albeit unnatural, origins. On Jan. 2, the asteroid-tracking Minor Planet Center (MPC) ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

As we move into the third month of meteorological winter, we will see longer days and more sunshine, gaining nearly an hour ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...