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

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

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

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 ...

In 2022, a probe was sent crashing into an asteroid as part of a “planetary defence” test. This Monday, the second part of ...

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

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

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

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.

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

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...