The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases in asteroid Ryugu samples, suggesting the key building blocks of DNA and RNA are ...

Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

Of the five asteroids, one will be closer to Earth than the moon, according to NASA.

On March 31, 2026, Earth will witness three near-Earth asteroid flybys. From a 36-foot bus-sized rock to a 72-foot ...

Sherrie James wound up with a hole in her ceiling after a meteorite smashed through, though she still calls it a blessing.

And I had always heard that Jupiter protected us from asteroids, not that it launched them at the Earth.

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space ...