The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe has successfully returned with precious asteroid samples that could reveal crucial clues about the early solar system and the origins of life.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide ...

A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...

A huge space rock, dubbed by the US space agency NASA as Asteroid 2025 DU2 is rushing toward a close encounter with Earth and it is set to happen today. Not only is this a massive 150-foot asteroid, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 DU2, a 160-ft space rock travelling at 62,650 km/h. An asteroid nearly the size of a 16-story building is hurtling toward Earth at a staggering speed of 62,650 km/h. Named ...