NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

An asteroid the "size of an aeroplane" is expected to pass by Earth in the coming days. The space rock named 2025 OW will ...

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Initially flagged as a potential Earth threat, asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot space rock, is now predicted to potentially ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords ...