According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its first close approach to Mars on Oct. 7, 2020.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...