Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor In late June media speculated that a meteor entering ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

Asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029, but scientists have confirmed there's no threat of a collision. Find out ...

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...