The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A meteorite that smashed through a home in McDonough, Georgia, has been found to be 4.56 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The fragment, from the asteroid belt ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a threat to Earth, may impact the moon. A lunar collision could release debris, posing risks to astronauts and satellites.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.