Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, may be an ocean world-at least in the sense that the apparently rocky surface may ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. Watch the full episo ...

Welcome to Edition 7.15 of the Rocket Report! It's a big week for big rockets, with SpaceX potentially launching its next ...

A rare comet is expected to be visible to the naked eye across the Northern Hemisphere for several weeks in October.

Private space company ispace and space startup Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) will deliver a mining robot called SCAR-E to ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

Sky-gazers won't want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet will be seen in the night sky for another ...

The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...