The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Hubble also captured a dust plume ejected from the Sun-warmed side of the comet and a hint of a dust tail streaming away from ...

The two space rocks will sail past at a distance of millions of miles, but if they were to strike, they would cause ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

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

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

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds as its revised trajectory is now ...