Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...

Comet A3 is just becoming visible in the sky and over the next few weeks will put on a show that's easy for family viewing. David Zura speaks with an academic astronomer.

On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE" became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. Originally ...

EARTH could collide with its deadly cosmic neighbour, Apophis, an asteroid 1,100ft (335m) wide, should a rare chain event occur, according to a new study. Though it would be a one in a billion ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe made a flyby of its ultimate destination on Wednesday ... created by large asteroid or comet ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning about a large asteroid that will pass Earth on Tuesday evening. Named 2024 ON, this space rock is approximately 950 feet in ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft has made its closest flyby of Mercury yet, offering new snapshots of the rocky planet’s ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing ...

The universe might be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid, scientists say.