A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

Enter at <a href=" for your chance to win a Superformance MKIII-R and support a great cause, The Petersen Automotive Museum.A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This ...

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space rock smaller than a planet ... We are confident that we know where all of the large asteroids are and that none of them will hit the Earth anytime ...