William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032 ... the highest odds ever recorded for a space rock to hit our planet. Later the space rock fluctuated again, this time ...