NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. 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 ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 ...

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.. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet ...

The finding confirms previous research showing that near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa is a piece of the moon.That 2021 link to the moon's history was shocking, as previously only distant asteroids ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System detected 2022 SF289, a 600-foot-long “potentially hazardous” asteroid that had been missed by more surveys, with the help of new software ...

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 ...