Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

Among the thousands of near-Earth objects that space agencies track, one small, dark asteroid stands out for how closely it ...

Apophis will pass about 38,000 kilometers from Earth in 2029, giving scientists a rare chance to watch a large asteroid react ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers recently found that the near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB 5 is rotating once every ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way.

An asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from rocks to radiation. Billions of years of traveling through interplanetary ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

HELSINKI — China should intensify its asteroid research and focus on sample return mission plans, according to scientists. China’s future asteroid exploration should focus on “low-cost, high-frequency ...

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness. By Katrina Miller In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the ...

An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Hera craft traveling through the solar system. Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid.