Earth may no longer be threatened by an impact from the asteroid 2024 YR4, but that doesn't mean this 200-foot-wide space rock can't still impact our lives.The asteroid, which at one point had a 1 in ...

NASA confirms the approach of asteroid 2025 MG1, an airplane-sized space rock traveling at 16,048 miles per hour towards ...

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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MG1 is approaching. The space rock, roughly 130 feet wide, will pass Earth on July 12.

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study published in the American Astronomical Society, the asteroid 2024 YR4 has 1 ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

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

Asteroids safely fly by Earth all the time. Here’s why scientists are watching Apophis. A menacing asteroid named Apophis is projected to have a close encounter with Earth in 2029.

Residents of planet Earth fret not -- a 1,000-foot asteroid whizzing by our precious planet this weekend won't even come close to making impact.. In fact, while asteroid 2006 QQ23 is considered to ...