A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Four enormous asteroids, including one with the potential to wipe out an entire city off the map, are making a close flyby of ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller celestial objects. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued an alert for the three asteroids ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

Dr. Jay W. McMahon who worked as a scientist on the NASA DART project assures to, “not [be] too worried, at least about a big [asteroid]. We are confident that we know where all of the large asteroids ...

obviously—I’m a big massive geek. But it struck me how the science in the mission was relatively straightforward to just allow them to do something relatively simple, as in punch an asteroid.

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ... He knew that the agency was asking big, complex questions—questions that he, too, had often ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...