First meteor shower of the year to deliver hundreds of shooting stars - Clear skies in the UK offer perfect viewing condiions ...

Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed of 14,743 mph (23,700 km/h). The space rock, known as 2024 XN1 ...

According to the reports presented by various online sources, today, an asteroid named 2024 XS3 will make a close pass by Earth. Don’t worry- - it won’t hit us! NASA has confirmed that it’s ...

Get ready for a close call as asteroid 2024 XS3, a massive 84-foot space rock, is heading straight for Earth tomorrow. But don’t panic – NASA assures us there is absolutely no risk of collision. This ...

A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.

Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, it makes it rich for studying many processes that could assist in understanding them, she says. "What is unique about Chiron ...

But they are still dangerous. A small asteroid exploded over Russia a decade ago. Scientists have new methods to track these asteroids. This helps protect Earth from impacts. Image source ...

The Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid called 3200 Phaethon with a comet-like orbit and were first observed in 1862. Dr Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the physics department at the ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...

Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the USS Portland dock ship. Navy officials on the deck scrutinized the sky in search ...