See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

Two asteroids, 2024 YF7 and 2024 YR9, are set to pass near Earth in early January. NASA confirms no immediate threat but ...

and planning for an eventual impact. Artwork of an asteroid and planet earth. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office ...

Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles.

AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it ...

It is the finding of scientists that indicates the much bigger impact about 3.3 billion years ago-most likely aiding life to thrive-throwing into yet another perspective that space rocks had in the ...

This asteroid is a quasi-satellite of Earth, meaning it orbits the Sun but stays close to Earth. Kamoʻoalewa is roughly 131-328 feet (40-100 meters) in diameter and may be a fragment of the Moon, ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...