In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

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Discover the journey of Odisha's Bholghati Meteorite from its fall in 1905 to preservation at New York's American Museum.

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until recently, there was no evidence that such an incident had ever occurred.

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Astronomers have detected the largest comet ever recorded in the solar system — Bernardinelli-Bernstein, a colossal 100-kilometer-wide space giant, currently traveling toward the sun from the distant ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...

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After a "fireball" streaked across the sky over Maoming, South China's Guangdong Province, and nearby areas on Wednesday night, illuminating the sky like daytime, an astronomer from the National ...

The Vatican Observatory highlights NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit to help protect Earth ...

The Vatican Observatory is teaming up with global scientists to help defend Earth from asteroid impacts! Yes, planetary defense is real—and vital.