According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...

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The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Planetary Geologist R. Scott Harris, working under the auspices of UGA, analyzed fragments of the meteorite with an electron ...