NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of ...

The peak shower will appear to the east, coming out of the Gemini constellation, between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and will last through the night. Meteors began falling on Dec. 4 and will continue until ...

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on the evening of Saturday. During its peak, the AMS says that it can spit out upwards of ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

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Astronomers assemble! Here's your chance to help make better predictions. A newly found interstellar comet poses absolutely no threat to Earth, but a NASA-coordinated group plans to observe it to help ...

American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...

When an asteroid passing through the early solar system impacted the far side of our moon, it left behind the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. The 1,200 by 1,000-mile crater was formed in an oblong ...

Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, when our Solar System was still in its infancy, a giant asteroid slammed into the far side of the Moon, blasting an enormous crater referred to as the South Pole-Aitken ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...