Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The name of American musician and comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic has recently been immortalized in space as it has been officially assigned to an asteroid.

The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive battle scar to prove it.

Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Zvereff's Venice-bowing feature debut focuses on a pair of astronauts sent to an asteroid to collect a certain quota of rocks or risk being left there forever.

It's considered one of the best hard rock albums ever made. It has sold more than any other debut in the 1980s. Yet Guns N' ...

In 1977, NASA’s Viking 2 orbiter pulled off a historic flyby of Deimos, capturing high-resolution images of the moon’s surface. Deimos turned out to have a much smoother, dustier surface than the ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis will ...

The asteroid, designated 2026 JH2, is likely between 50 and 100 feet across, according to estimates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A newly discovered asteroid will pass within about 56,000 ...

An asteroid is going to whiz by Earth on Monday evening, but don’t worry, it’s not going to hit us. Astronomers say it’s somewhere in the ballpark of 50 to 100 feet wide, according to its reflective ...