The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by ...

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

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

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 ...

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

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

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

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...

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

NASA has issued an important update today about a notable cosmic event. A massive 300-foot asteroid, comparable to the size ...

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