In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. The picture was taken ... Still not enough space? Don't forget to check out our Space Image of the Day, and on the weekends ...

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Experts believe that the structure formed around 345 million years ago and was likely created by a meteor around 2,000 ... the Aorounga structure taken from space in the late 1990s have also ...

Asteroid hitting the Earth (Representative Image: Canva) Imagine a cosmic treasure chest moving across the vast expanse of space, holding enough wealth to make every person on Earth a billionaire.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the "first asteroid found to have a ring system," according to NASA.

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

But two recent missions—Japan’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx—collected bits of asteroid directly from outer space. Those samples were brought to Earth and intensely protected ...

While some of the debris is lost to space, they found that enough fragments from the original asteroid survived in orbit in many of the simulations, where they continually collided and ground ...

Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world. People all over North America spent the afternoon awed by the movement ...