On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

But ― cue the heroic music ― in something out of a sci-fi flick, NASA and other international agencies might try and intercept the asteroid if it is deemed dangerous. Again, for some reason Jeff ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

At first, AstroForge kept its target asteroid a secret, fearing competitors. But in January, the company announced the destination, an object called 2022 OB5. Mr. Gialich said he was more ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...