Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A NASA scientist is warning that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of so-called “city-killing” asteroids that could one day strike the pla ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same time.