A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

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

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted our planet's demise by 2600. Does NASA agree with him?

Well, Nostradamus also had some startling predictions for 2025, including a major space event. A colossal asteroid, known as ...

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

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers) across struck Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping ...

NASA plans to blast "planet ... approach point was identified to fire it off course and into oblivion. A study suggested that to take out a 650ft asteroid you would need a nuclear bomb 200 ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Ballouz told LiveScience the findings "introduce a novel mechanism for asteroid surface refreshing that may provide an answer ...

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet ...