NASA’s kinetic impact test successfully changed an asteroid’s orbit, with upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and new low-cost ...

A small asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, highlighting the importance of global tracking and research. Scientists ...

NASA planetary defence experts simulate catastrophic asteroid impact scenarios with a 72% Earth strike probability, as ESA's ...

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 SA3 is approaching fast. Measuring about 54 feet across, it travels 18,073 miles per ...

It cannot yet be ruled out that the asteroid 2024 YR₄ will crash into the moon in seven years' time, with dangerous ...

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Livestream: Virtual Telescope Project. A potentially hazardous asteroid spanning the length of the Washington Monument ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...