NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

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

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

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

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space.

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

Data shows a 3.1% impact risk in 2032, yet NASA’s public message feels strangely calm. Police union threatens legal action ...

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

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

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

However, we might also want to look for hints of alien origin. One very strong piece of evidence would be any kind of radio ...