NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 XN1, about the size of a commercial jet, will safely pass Earth on December 24. It will ...

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NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.

Stargazers in the northern hemisphere are in for an out-of-this-world holiday light show this weekend. The Ursids, the final ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...