Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Thirty-six rising high school seniors are spending five weeks studying near-Earth asteroids using the telescopes at the ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

Astronomers have called for help to identify a mystery object that may have hit Saturn on Saturday in what could be the first ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

Recent analyses indicate that asteroid 2023 DW is moving at a speed of 25 kilometers per second and is currently situated ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from which ...