The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

A newly discovered car-sized asteroid just made the closest-known flyby to Earth without hitting our planet. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

A small object that zipped by Earth this month is mostlikely just a wayward piece of space junk left over from an interplanetarymission that launched in times past, NASA officials said Thursday. The ...

Astronomy buffs eager to get a glimpse of what may be a piece of space junk from a NASA mission of the 1960s are in luck. An object named 2020 SO — which was captured last month by the Earth’s ...

A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our ...

A strange near-Earth object (NEO) recently spotted orbiting close to our planet turns out to be the booster from a rocket from the 1960s, NASA has announced. Object 2020 SO was at first thought to be ...

The Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui has discovered an object that is headed for Earth’s orbit. This isn’t out of the ordinary except that this object is apparently not an asteroid. In fact, it ...

Fifty-four years ago, NASA launched the Surveyor 2, an uncrewed mission to explore the surface of the Moon. Alas, the spacecraft went into a tumble en route after a failed course-correction burn, and ...