The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the formation of our solar system. They are mainly concentrated within the main ...