NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Material older than the sun has been found 200 million miles from Earth by a NASA spacecraft. "Presolar grains" - the dust of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

Space rock dust found by a NASA spacecraft 200 million miles from Earth has been found to contain material that is more than ...