New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this ...

A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-bus-sized space rock won't ...

Could nuclear explosions help protect Earth from destructive asteroids? That is what physicist Nathan Moore and a team of ...

"Understanding how different asteroid materials vaporize and deflect will be critical for preparing for a planetary defense mission, should the need arise." ...

Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...