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

Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for ...

A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand why this encounter is more routine than remarkable.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted dozens of boulders drifting from asteroid Dimorphos — space shrapnel flung loose after the agency's DART mission intentionally crashed a spacecraft into it.

NASA’s Lucy mission took the highest resolution image yet of this uniquely shaped asteroid.

Is an asteroid going to hit the Earth? Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a below 0.5% chance of hitting the Earth, according to observations from NASA and other astronomers.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has found Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of hitting the moon in 2032.

HOUSTON—NASA says it has remedied a drop in the pressure of the electric propulsion system fuel line aboard the Psyche spacecraft that is en route to a large, metal-rich main belt asteroid of ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approache s to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California.

Watch a stadium-size asteroid pass Earth today — and learn why this one isn’t 2024 YR4, the asteroid that had scientists and the public on edge.

NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a NASA blog post from April 29, 2025, the spacecraft has encountered ...