NASA successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit using a kinetic impact test, marking a breakthrough in planetary defense. Upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and NASA aim to study asteroids, Mars’ moons, ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

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

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

A microscopic grain from asteroid Ryugu, delivered by Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe, revealed a fiery mineral that shouldn’t exist there. The unexpected find is raising new questions about asteroid ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular ...

Impact probability To see whether an approaching object could hit Earth, researchers find out what an asteroid’s orbit looks like using a technique called astrometry.