Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we hit a rocky body is important ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 FA22 will pass Earth. The rock measures about 520 feet across. It travels at 24,127 miles ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 QD8 will fly past Earth on 3 September at speeds of around 28,600 miles per hour, and could ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 QV9 will fly by Earth on September 10. The asteroid is airplane-sized and travels at high ...

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...