There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe such an object like this up close.

NASA successfully crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in a one-way mission to redirect its orbit as part of a planetary defense test on Monday night. The DART was used as a ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December 22, 2032. That might sound small, but it’s 1 in 32 odds - worse than ...

The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including in Charleston, S.C., a day before the June Bootid meteor shower peeks.