The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Near Earth Object (NEO) Working Group has released a film about NEOs and planetary defense. The volunteer made documentary presents the opinions of ...

Space! It's been called the "final frontier." It's powerful, infinite and some would say unknowable. But astronomer Dean Regas is not among them. As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Since the beginning of time, humans have looked up at the stars and dreamed of exploring the universe. This dream is becoming more of a reality with each passing year and as ...

Last week, I wrote about the UA’s OSIRIS-REx space mission to gather samples from an asteroid. One of the OSIRIS-REx’s mission is to teach us earthlings about the mission via Facebook, Twitter and ...

The day marks the anniversary of a large meteor impact in Siberia on June 30, 1908. This is known as the Tunguska event. As the meteor entered the atmosphere, it exploded several miles above the ...

The space rock came within a mere 11,500 miles (18,500 kilometers) of Earth on May 14. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A small ...

When we think of space, usually planets, stars, or black holes steal the spotlight. But asteroids, which also form a crucial part, are as interesting and full of mysteries that are yet to be studied ...

Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago. The divots were created at a time when animals in the seas were ...

It's not going to happen ... probably. Astronomers have almost found all the kilometer-sized asteroids. There’s a little under 1,000 of them—and none of them will strike Earth in the next 1,000 years.

Several asteroids are set to dash past Earth in the coming days, according to a list released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, close encounters that are almost certain to pass harmlessly and come ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

Simulations of asteroids near Venus reveal gaps in our ability to detect them. Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside ...