Asteroid 2010 RA91 will pass relatively close to Earth, but if it poses no threat, why are scientists still watching it so ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

The asteroid is the size of an office building, and will narrowly pass by the moon in 2032.

TransAstra is performing a study, funded by investors and customers, to explore the technical feasibility of moving a 100-metric-ton asteroid to a stable near-Earth orbit. “We want to bring an ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

New analysis reveals that the DART Mission impact did make a difference and altered the entire binary asteroid’s path around the sun.

China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in ...