Far from the bright glare of the Moon, a much smaller companion has been quietly keeping pace with Earth, looping around the ...

The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

The Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui has discovered an object that is headed for Earth’s orbit. This isn’t out of the ordinary except that this object is apparently not an asteroid. In fact, it ...

A strange near-Earth object (NEO) recently spotted orbiting close to our planet turns out to be the booster from a rocket from the 1960s, NASA has announced. Object 2020 SO was at first thought to be ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

The controversial Harvard astronomer is one of the main sources of the "alien mothership" hypothesis. This is what he thinks, as the object moves away from Earth.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects – those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth. The ...

Fifty-four years ago, NASA launched the Surveyor 2, an uncrewed mission to explore the surface of the Moon. Alas, the spacecraft went into a tumble en route after a failed course-correction burn, and ...

Astronomy buffs eager to get a glimpse of what may be a piece of space junk from a NASA mission of the 1960s are in luck. An object named 2020 SO — which was captured last month by the Earth’s ...

The year 2020 is clearly out to make its mark in a big way: a global pandemic, massive wildfires across the Western United States, huge demonstrations for social justice around the globe. Here’s ...