Scientists have unveiled three concepts for tiny spacecraft that could voyage from Earth to meet Apophis in April 2029.

The asteroid 2024 JN16 is less than 15 feet (4 meters) wide — about the size of a car. It did not hit Earth but came within a ...

Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth.

Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...

The primitive asteroids that UCF physics doctoral student Brittany Harvison studies carry with them traces of their origins ...

The author of a disaster novel couldn't have dreamed it up any better: On a Friday, the thirteenth of all days, the ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis is estimated to be around 1,100-feet (335-meters) across, and was first discovered in 2004.

A newly discovered asteroid is a toddler–in space years. The moonlet circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh named Selam is about 2 to 3 million years old. Scientists arrived at this age estimate using ...

HOUSTON—As NASA’s planetary defense strategy for detecting, tracking and diverting Near Earth Objects on trajectories to ...

The 2nd Audiovisual squadron at Hill Air Force Base recently won a Webby People's Voice Award for their live broadcast of the ...

These near-Earth asteroids (or NEAs for short, sometimes called NEOs, for near-Earth objects) aren’t necessarily going to ...

NASA has selected nine companies to perform feasibility studies of commercial approaches to deliver spacecraft to Mars and ...