World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is the 10th anniversary of ...

On July 28, a plane-sized asteroid, named 2025 OW, is scheduled to pass Earth at a distance of 393,000 miles. While this ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

But researchers say one near-Earth asteroid didn't come from either planet – and perhaps is a piece of our moon. The near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa, ... 'Wow, it is real,'" Sharkey said.

People won't be able to see it with their own eyes but NASA has a virtual asteroid tracker that shows where asteroids are in real-time. NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimates the ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space.

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032 ...

NASA’s seven-year mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu is expected to have returned around 8.8 ounces (approximately 250 grams) of the asteroid’s rocks—the largest space sample collected ...