To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...

The Perseverance rover found the strange rock near the rim of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometres) Jezero crater, which ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Astronomers have discovered a new quasi-moon. 2025 PN7 is not the first quasi-moon, nor the only out there right now. Has Earth acquired a second moon? Not exactly. Astronomers recently discovered a ...

Has Earth acquired a second moon? Not exactly. Astronomers recently discovered a new quasi-moon. This asteroid with a diameter of 50 feet will be accompanying Earth as it orbits the Sun for the next ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...

A Wilmington man was found guilty in a fatal hit-and-run that killed another Wilmington man in 2021. Adam Kendall Marshall, 26, was convicted of felony death by vehicle and felony hit-and-run ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping theories of how Earth gained its oceans. A billion-year-old impact may have melted ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...

President Trump announced a 100% additional tariff on China after Beijing placed new restrictions on the export of rare-earth minerals. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Reuters President Trump said Friday he ...