Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

(There's also small chance, 0.8 percent, that the rock could hit the moon.) The detection shows that the system for defending Earth from lethal space rocks works like a well-oiled global machine.

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year, and it appears that a fragment of one fell ...

Now it's estimated that 44,000 kg of space rock hits our planet ... threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizable impact crater on our planet's only natural satellite.

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit ... There are tens of thousands of plum-sized pieces of space junk that hit with the power ...

In December, the asteroid had a 3.1% chance of striking Earth. However, NASA now suggests that it’s our natural satellite that faces a slight risk of impact. "There still remains a very small ...

People and planes often flag wildfires before satellites do, but satellites can play a critical role when it comes to ...

Pettit also authored a remarkable shot of Earth with two satellite galaxies in the background ... near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.