NASA’s eyes are set on giant asteroid which is set to make closer approach to Earth in near future. They feared that if this ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

Apophis, which is scheduled to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, is a massive ‘city-killer’ roughly the size of the Empire ...

When your spacecraft is way out there racing along millions of miles from Earth and checking an asteroid for rich metals, one ...

This event, which took place on October 22, 2024, marks the third “imminent impactor” recorded this year, highlighting the continual and often daunting reality of near-Earth objects (NEOs). Discovered ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...