"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

The 1998 science-fiction movie Armageddon, about a giant asteroid headed to Earth, imagined sending a crew of oil drillers to plant a nuclear bomb inside the asteroid, suggesting it’s easier to ...

Now the company is set to actually travel toward a near-Earth asteroid in deep space. AstroForge’s second robotic spacecraft, called Odin, is bundled into a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also ...