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An asteroid that was only discovered a few days ago, on January 21, is set to make a very close approach to Earth in the coming days.

The Hubble Space Telescope has accidentally photographed a rogue asteroid that streaked across a galaxy that Hubble had in its sights.

January and February may feature an incredible cosmic sight for skywatchers as comet C/2022 E3 makes its first approach to Earth in over 50,000 years.

Researchers have found that billions of years ago, Mars was rocked by a massive megatsunami that would have been as tall as an 80-story building.

Scientists have discovered the largest potentially hazardous asteroid, which has a diameter of nearly a mile and has been dubbed a 'planet killer.'

NASA's asteroid-tracking database has confirmed the existence of a massive asteroid estimated to be nearly 2,500 feet wide approaching Earth soon.

Astronomers have been looking for near-Earth asteroids for many years, and so far, they have found tens of thousands, but how many are dangerous?

NASA has released the results from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and if the space agency's planetary defense mission was successful.

NASA has successfully collided a spacecraft into an asteroid, and the crash site will be investigated by a detective spacecraft in the coming years.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to provide unique views of NASA's DART spacecraft hitting an asteroid.

NASA has collided its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) into an asteroid, and researchers were shocked at how the asteroid brightened.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully collided with its target asteroid millions of miles away, and here are its final images.

NASA has successfully collided its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into an asteroid located approximately 7 million miles away.

NASA has finally crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid, changing its orbit, and you can get a demonstration by simply Googling 'NASA DART'.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is on its way to collide with an asteroid, and on its way, its snapped images of Jupiter.

Meteor tracking officials have confirmed a fireball streaking across the night sky, putting to bed speculation of a falling SpaceX Starlink satellite.

Researchers have discovered the largest crystals yet of a mysterious form of diamond called lonsdaleite, which is 58% harder than Earth diamonds.

NASA has photographed the target asteroid it will collide into very soon in a demonstration of its DRACO camera that's onboard the doomed spacecraft.

NASA has said that its DART team has confirmed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, locking in the trajectory of the DART spacecraft that's ready for colli.

NASA is set to collide the high-speed DART spacecraft with a large asteroid in the space agency's very first planetary defense mission.

Residents across a US state were no doubt frightened when a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere overhead and exploded several seconds later.

Space certainly isn't a safe place at all, and there are many different things that have the possibility of killing you if you were ever to explore it.

Giant meteorite impacts like those that wiped out the dinosaurs likely resulted in the continents forming billions of years ago.

An asteroid that was only discovered days ago, estimated to be wider than two football fields, has made its approach to Earth.

Eye witnesses have been left confused as numerous meteors have flown overhead, causing the sky to light up a green color.

An asteroid approximately the size of the Empire State Building will approach Earth later this week and be traveling 72,000 mph.

A new study finds that humans may trigger another mass extinction level event that would result in the death of several species.

The two near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), dubbed 2016 CZ31 and 2013 CU83, will make their close approaches to Earth only a day apart.

A comet that is estimated to be 11 miles wide has entered the inner solar system and will make its closest approach to Earth soon.

NASA landed on an asteroid with a spacecraft to collect a sample, and now the space agency has revealed what the surface is like.

2022 NE and 2022 NF are two asteroids detected only two days before they each came within as little as 55,000 miles of Earth.

An astrophotographer has captured Comet C/2017 K2 entering our inner solar system, with its orbit bringing it close to Earth soon.

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft made by JAXA has returned samples from the Ryugu asteroid that contain 23 different types of amino acids.

NASA's asteroid tracking database has confirmed that the largest asteroid of 2022 is currently making its approach to Earth.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory asteroid detection system recorded a building-sized asteroid zoom past our planet on May 9.

NASA confirmed the existence of a fireball that entered Earth's atmosphere and caused a sonic boom as it traveled 55,000 mph.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Close Approach database has confirmed that tomorrow a large asteroid will be approaching Earth.

NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies database has confirmed that an asteroid possibly 2,500 feet wide will approach Earth.

China has announced plans to construct a 'space defense system' that is capable of protecting its spacecrafts and Earth.

NASA has confirmed that the largest comet ever observed by a human is larger than expected and is making its way toward Earth.

A team of researchers has claimed that they have found a fossil of a dinosaur that died on the day the asteroid impacted Earth.

NASA's database for near-Earth objects indicates that a bus-sized asteroid will be making a close approach to Earth soon.

NASA's Center for Near-Earth Studies database has confirmed that a mile-wide asteroid will make a close approach to Earth.

NASA's Center for Near-Earth Studies has revealed that one of the biggest space rocks of 2022 will approach Earth this month.

An asteroid that is classified as 'potentially hazardous' will be making a close approach to Earth very soon, according to NASA.

An astronomer at the Konkoly Observatory discovered Asteroid 2022 FD1 just before it was due to make a close approach to Earth.

A famous icy comet is making its way close to the Sun, and as it makes its approach with our star, the comet is falling apart.

An astronomer detected an asteroid approximately the size of a fridge a couple of hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere.

NASA is currently tracking an asteroid that is approximately the size of a bus as it makes a very close approach with Earth.

Researchers have discovered the largest crater on Earth that formed within the last 100,000 years, according to a new study.