A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

The asteroid, now named 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, at exactly 00:47:26 UTC. This incident was more ...

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day ...

Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

NASA confirms four near-Earth asteroids will pass Earth safely, measuring from bus to house-sized, with no impact risk on 5th October.

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

Asteroids. What do you call the masses of space rocks floating in outer space that are smaller than planets and even smaller than our moon. These are called asteroids, the small airless rocky masses ...