The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

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 across ...

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

The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with Earth, but that recently dropped to less than 0.0017% in new calculations by NASA making it negligible. “It’s really easy to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

Discussions focused on four core topics: asteroid defense science, detection, tracking, and impact technology. Wu, who is also the director general of the DSEL, co-chaired the event alongside Wang ...

Asteroid YR4 was discovered on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming that S-type ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage ... chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet ...

NASA is still studying the asteroid's potential impact on the moon. Here's why this asteroid made headlines, how it could impact the moon and how a big addition in 2027 could change how scientists ...