According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A large asteroid once considered the greatest known risk to Earth may now be on track for a direct hit — not on our planet, ...

An asteroid named 2022 YS5 will pass close to Earth tomorrow. The asteroid is about 120 feet in diameter. It will travel at a speed of 22,500 km/h. NASA and ISRO confirm that it is not a threat. ISRO ...

NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US space agency showed for the first time that Earth could indeed ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...