Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

Harvard astronomers were left red-faced after mistaking Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla Roadster for a potentially dangerous ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids spotted something unusual. A space rock, ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

A supposed asteroid turned out to be a Tesla model flying through space as a PR stunt. Such mix-ups are increasingly becoming ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...