The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later ...

Carvel and Activate are teaming up to bring the spirit of play to Manhattan as Activate, the first active-gaming experience, celebrates the ...

‘For context, the Chicxulub impactor, famous for sparking the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, was about 10km in diameter – ...

Metal-rich asteroids could one day become hardware stores for Mars, supplying the materials needed to build and repair a growing colony. A new analysis shows that carefully selected asteroids may be ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way. At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the ...

WTF?! As movie adaptations of video games have turned from mostly box-office bombs into commercial hits, it seems studios are now trawling the entire history of gaming for ideas. In what sounds like a ...

A near-Earth object once thought to be an asteroid turns out to be a dark comet, challenging scientists' notions about identifying space rocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration For nearly three ...

Two SETI Institute planetary scientists now have asteroids bearing their names, an honor! The International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature recently approved the names ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of Tokyo / Chiba Institute of Technology / Institute of Science Tokyo / AIST ...

It isn't just a movie plot: Asteroids really could threaten planet Earth. Previous impacts like the famous Tunguska event in 1908 caused huge explosions in the Earth's atmosphere and flattened miles ...

Investing in interplanetary defense isn’t expensive, and it could save the planet. NASA has catalogued more than 40,000 asteroids whose paths approach Earth’s orbit. Here is where they are now.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it’s also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the way ...