Yahoo News spoke with an astronomer about approximately where and when a half-ton Soviet-era spacecraft stuck in Earth's ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

"This 230–510 meters large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 4.2 millions of km, 10.9 times the average lunar ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, according to a groundbreaking microlensing study using KMTNet telescopes.

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

They’re getting lost in the saucer. A new photo claiming to show a 1,000-foot-wide UFO in the American Southwest has been ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...