Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid to push it off course in landmark defence test - The landmark achievement could pave ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

New observations by NASA confirm an asteroid will not hit the Moon in 2032. Learn about the NASA Asteroid 2032, what scientists discovered, why the risk is gone, and how planetary defense monitoring ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

Continued study of the 2022 mission which slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid found a small, but growing change in orbit around the Sun.

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026. Image from Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project www.virtualtelescope.eu A massive near-Earth asteroid of “planet ...