The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest approach in over 100 years. This massive space rock, measuring an estimated ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

The near-Earth asteroid first made headlines in late January, when NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced its existence and said it had a 1 per cent chance of coming into contact with ...

Technology has, fortunately, come a long way since the late Cretaceous ... the trajectory of a near-Earth object when it deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a tiny asteroid 7 million miles ...