Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

Space enthusiasts will have the opportunity to witness a rare celestial event where a "potentially hazardous" asteroid slightly larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza is set to zoom past our planet.

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

Updated orbit predictions show the chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in seven ... before and during its close approach to Earth in 2029. For context, 2024 YR4 now rates at a 0 on ...