The DART spacecraft smashed into an asteroid in 2022. Researchers are studying the aftermath to learn how to protect Earth ...

A 99-foot wide asteroid, named 2024 KA1, will fly close to Earth on Saturday. This celestial visitor is travelling at a speed of 29,961 kmph, and will make its closest approach to Earth at 16:36 IST.

Scientists don’t often have the time to get all their equipment set up to study incoming meteors from space. Instead, they ...

A bus-sized asteroid named 2024 JP1 is approaching Earth at 14,400 kilometers per hour, closely monitored by astronomers. Despite its fast speed, it's not considered a threat, expected to pass by ...

In the meantime, researchers are busy analyzing samples of the surface of asteroid Bennu that a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth in the fall of 2023. The results will help ...

The safe distance between this asteroid and Earth is guaranteed by NASA to be around 2.75 million miles. Although the majority of asteroids avoid Earth, a small number fall into a category known ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive body orbiting the sun that are typically composed of ...

A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now ...

A new public competition will allow a lucky astronomy enthusiast to name one of Earth's tiny "quasi-moons." Here's everything ...

An asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from ...

does an commendable job of tracking asteroids that pass by earth and also those that could be a threat. Thankfully, '2015-KJ19' does not fall under the hazardous category. This asteroid will make ...

On a fall evening in 2022 ... also called a kinetic impactor—could target and deflect an asteroid far from Earth. Ron Ballouz, a planetary scientist at the lab, commented that what is often ...