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

Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...