OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

NASA has identified 2025 MM as part of the Aten group, a family of asteroids that regularly cross Earth’s orbital path.

NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

No expense was spared in transporting the precious asteroid cargo to Houston. At the Utah Test and Training Range, workers prepare to transfer the sample-return capsule from a truck to a Boeing C-17 ...