NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfolded its robotic arm Oct. 20, 2020, and in a beginning for the agency,...
Several meteorites have been found in western Cuba after a fireball blazed across the sky on Friday, Feb. 1. The bolide reportedly traveled over West...
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the Earth – after traveling for just over two years since...
In October, astronomers observed an interstellar asteroid for the first time. We talked to one of the first to study it, and here’s everything they’ve...
The house-size asteroid that just passed by Earth, almost as close as many satellites in orbit, will be back — and a future visit might...
From nuclear weapons to gas eruptions, what will be the most reliable method for saving the planet from a killer asteroid?
A humongous space junk is about to fly past Earth, and while NASA says there’s no need to get our pants in a knot on...
Anselmo la Manna has combined a computer simulation of a massive 310-mile-wide asteroid impacting the Earth and Pink Floyd song “The Great Gig in the Sky”playing...