Last year, astronomers on the hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids spotted something unusual. A space rock, ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is tracking asteroid 2025 BK as it nears Earth on 25 January 2025. The 160-foot-wide ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is closely tracking asteroid 2025 BK, a 160-foot-wide space rock set to pass by Earth.