A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...

It was confirmed that “planet killer” asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, which were recently sampled by Japan’s JAXA’s Hayabusa2 and ...

We will know more in 2029 when NASA’s Psyche probe, launched last year, reaches the asteroid with which it shares its name.

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...

NASA issued an alert on the asteroid 2019 VU5, a near-Earth object, which is going to pass dangerously close to Earth today.

Trump didn't scrap SLS, but he did change Obama's goal of launching astronauts to an asteroid, shifting priorities to moon ...

In 2022, NASA's DART mission crashed an impactor into a double asteroid system in an attempt to change its trajectory (the ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... which came to a head at a 2006 meeting in Prague. A ...