Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

Sky-gazers won't want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet will be seen in the night sky for another ...

A rare comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye across the Northern Hemisphere for several weeks in October.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

Regardless of their origin, and despite being linked to the last two destructive impacts on Earth — the 1908 Tunguska event and the 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst — it seems that the Taurid Complex does ...

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's ...

The news was a relief for Fitzsimmons and the entire Hera team.

Researchers from the University of Maryland used the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope to study the Taurid swarm.

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...