Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Amongst millions of other floating space rocks that call this belt home, 20008 Adacarrera is one of the largest with a diameter greater than 99% of known asteroids. One specific space rock may seem ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

As Science News reports, the rock’s color also helped scientists trace its potential parents to just two other known asteroids. The first is a 55-kilometer wide asteroid known as Polana ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some point in the near future, this risk may be out of date. The rock is 130 ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 DL22" will make the closest ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to ... tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." ...

Asteroids are essentially construction debris ... The telescope’s destination is the first Lagrange point, or L1, one of five known places in the solar system where the balanced gravitational ...