PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye for over two billion people. It will be the first time in recorded history that a ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official ...

Partnership brings flight-proven AI-driven guidance and control to one of commercial space’s most ambitious deep-space missions ...

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located in the constellation Orion, has emerged as one of the night sky's most watched ...