Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Harvard astronomers were left red-faced after mistaking Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla Roadster for a potentially dangerous ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Astronomers recently discovered an asteroid hurdling towards Earth. Sadly, it was just Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Starman's ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

A supposed asteroid turned out to be a Tesla model flying through space as a PR stunt. Such mix-ups are increasingly becoming ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...