Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

The asteroid will pass by our planet at a distance of 1.01 million miles—about four times the distance between Earth and the ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

NASA is monitoring two asteroids, one the size of an airplane and the other like a bus, flying by Earth today. Additionally, ...

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.