Here's a look at the last 25 years of spaceflight from 1999 to 2024 during the first 25 years of Space.com. From the ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...

While we are fascinated (sometimes alarmed) by space rocks hurtling towards Earth, we often fail to distinguish between asteroids, meteoroids, and meteors. Here's a rundown of their differences.

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

NASA's Psyche mission has sent signal from Mars orbit, marking a critical milestone of the mission, NASA said on Thursday.

A telescope in Hawaii captured a rare comet as it passes near Earth. The footage was captured on 2 October by the National ...