Hey, guess what? Two asteroids, each about as big as a school bus, are zooming past Earth this Tuesday. They’re going super fast—over 25,000 miles per hour.

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An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

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G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...

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As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is ...

While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.