The researcher tested that idea in the laboratory, with the help of an Earth wind simulation. They accelerated hydrogen and ...

New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

A building-sized asteroid, classified as 'potentially hazardous', will make a close flyby of Earth this week, and you can watch the event through a household telescope or via a free online livestream.

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth.

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life. To ...

On the count of three, engineers in the Johns Hopkins University control room erupt in cheers. It’s early fall 2022, and amid rows of computer monitors and a dozen television screens, the team ...

In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps ...

Nexstar’s KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shared how scientists tracked ...