ASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its trajectory ...

After three months of declines, ramping is on the rise again in South Australia with more than three-thousand hours lost in ...

Clever clogs over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered the "key for planetary defence" by finding a way ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last ...

The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of velocity. On December 13 (this Friday), it will reach a point 350 ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...