The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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.

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

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.

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...