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World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

When a space rock the size of a small building gets a little too close for comfort, scientists everywhere pay attention. In ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

NASA has identified 2025 MM as part of the Aten group, a family of asteroids that regularly cross Earth’s orbital path.

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...