VCG. The name of Asia pop diva Faye Wong has been used in a minor planet as the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Small Body Nomen ...

The bold question-askers at What If talk with Bill Nye about why blowing up asteroids may be the worst defense strategy.

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite living near the impact site in Mexico.

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

Prehistoric Body Theater brings ancient creatures to life through dance in the U.S. premiere of "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone ...

Only one of the known Venus co-orbital asteroids follows a nearly circular orbit; the others move on more elongated paths ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery inside a tiny grain from the asteroid Ryugu that could change what we thought we ...

NASA and ESA scientists are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which is now projected to have a small chance of impacting the Moon ...

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

NASA fired up a full-duration test of its new RS-25 engine that will power the Space Launch System rocket on Artemis missions ...