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

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 ...

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NASA has recently backed Stephen Hawking's assertion about the urgency to act against the climate crisis and other threats, ...

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 ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission is on its way to the asteroid to better understand how the rock may be transformed by its close encounter with our planet. If it were to hit Earth—which it won’t ...

Known as 2024 SH1, the asteroid measures around 48 feet across. It will safely pass by at a distance of 1,520,000 miles. NASA confirms there is no danger to our planet. What Are Asteroids?

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.