Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will sweep around the sun on Sept. 27 to make a brief foray into the morning sky. Will it be a bright ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

NASA's NEO Surveyor, an infrared space telescope, is under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aimed at detecting ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE" became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. Originally ...

If it strongly scatters sunlight towards the Earth it might even be visible in the glow of dusk just after its closest approach to Earth on October 12. From the Washington, DC area and similar ...

In the mood for a movie night? Greenland with Gerard Butler is currently streaming on Max and Max (Via Hulu), so get comfy ...

Hours after an Arizona observatory spotted a tiny unknown asteroid zooming toward Earth, it harmlessly crashed into our planet’s atmosphere, breaking up over the Philippines. While this 3-foot ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating the asteroid-hunting spacecraft called NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor), which will hunt for asteroids and comets travelling towards Earth. China ...

Asteroids around this size hurtle toward Earth about every two weeks without posing any danger. The asteroid was discovered through the Catalina Sky Survey, which is run by the University of ...