Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

NASA confirms no collision risk as asteroids 2024 YC1 and 2024 YQ2 approach Earth on December 28, 2024, at 639,000 miles ...

From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

A 10-story building-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles.

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

Nasa has issued an update on a huge asteroid which will pass Earth on Christmas Eve. On the night when Father Christmas will ...

XS3 will pass Earth on December 19, 2024, at a safe distance of 2,080,000 miles. While there is no risk of collision, the ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.