Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

Editorial written by Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Board. For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

AstroForge founder and CEO Matt Gialich provided an update on the status of the Odin spacecraft via social media on Saturday.