There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

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

Measuring about 1,200 feet wide, 2005 VO5 belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that frequently cross ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

A stadium-sized asteroid, 2005 VO5, is set to approach Earth tomorrow morning. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms its ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2005 VO5, a giant, stadium-sized object set to whizz past Earth at high speed on July 11.

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

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

A recent study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new insights into the mysterious asteroid ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...