A groundbreaking study of asteroid Ryugu has revealed something scientists never expected: water moved through its rocky ...

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

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

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

An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, ...

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

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

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...