A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting ...

NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

Speculations about an alleged Planetary Defence Initiative stemmed from the International Asteroid Warning Network Campaign ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Stargazers can expect to see around 20 meteors an hour during the peak of the Orionids. Learn more about October astronomy ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

The Orionid meteor shower is active each year from about Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, according to the American Meteor Society. This ...

NASA says the meteor shower is best viewed during the pre-dawn hours, but the sweet spot is between midnight and 2 a.m. Make ...

One of the two branches of the Taurids meteor stream, the Southern Taurids can occasionally produce very bright meteors. In ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...