NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids ...

(WJW) – A large asteroid will reportedly zip past Earth on Wednesday afternoon during the autumnal equinox, which ushers in the fall season. The asteroid, known as “2021 NY1,” is being ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut ...

Asteroid "2021 FH1" is set to whizz pass the Earth on March 21 at a zippy 30,959 miles past hour.

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour.

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...