An asteroid roughly the size of a house slipped past Earth on May 18, 2026, passing well inside the orbit of the Moon. The ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...

Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past ...

An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t in any imminent danger, but the cosmic debris will still come close enough ...

China is studying an on-orbit kinetic impact test mission for planetary defense that would target a small near-Earth asteroid ...

If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...

This artist's concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit. A few objects such as these can exhibit ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is about to arrive at Kamoʻoalewa, Earth’s mysterious “mini-moon,” to collect samples that may reveal a lunar origin.

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft captured incredible images of a near-Earth asteroid after a super-close flyby on July 5 though ...