NASA built its newest observatory to chart the unseen scaffolding of the universe, mapping dark matter and dark energy across ...

NASA launched a first-of-its kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks ...

It’s not the giant, planet-ending asteroids from Hollywood movies that concern NASA the most. And it’s not the tiny space rocks that burn up harmlessly in our atmosphere. Instead, scientists say the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, five asteroids will fly past Earth, close enough to be categorized as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). However, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is monitoring three asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that ...

NASA says it is testing its next-generation telescope that could one day help astronomers spot a city- or even planet-destroying asteroid like in the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up." The Near-Earth Object ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist who ...