The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Using AI training, researchers designed a "robot dog" that moves like a cat, and has no trouble navigating low-gravity ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

YZ9 is set to approach Earth on 6 January. The asteroid is about 100 feet wide, similar to a large aircraft. It will travel at 19,091 miles per hour. At its closest, ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks in early January, originating from asteroid 2003 EH1. It produces up to 120 meteors per ...

A celestial event is set to capture scientific attention as asteroid 2024 YC9 approaches Earth. NASA has confirmed the asteroid’s close pass on 3 January, offering a valuable opportunity for ...