The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

There's a lot more to the asteroid belt than meets the eye—and some of the things you may have thought you knew may be completely false! Join us for a special YouTube episode of SciShow Tangents with ...

Saturn may be one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system, but reaching it is brutally difficult. Sitting 1.3 ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...

STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll ...

Jupiter continues shining brightly in the east in the evening among the stars of Gemini. To the right of Gemini is Orion with orange-red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel at diagonally ...

The Expanse envisions a future where the solar system has been colonized and a Cold War brews between Mars, Earth, and the Asteroid Belt.

With much of North America shivering in a deep freeze, I’d be surprised if many folks are doing stargazing! If you’re one of the intrepid few, you’ll find it hard to ignore the stars of Orion, ...