NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at over six kilometers per second to test Earth’s first planetary defense plan. Engineers designed the mission to precisely hit Dimorphos and measure ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 NJ, measuring about 65 feet wide, will make its closest approach on 7 July.

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

NASA has confirmed that a 65-foot asteroid, named 2025 MN88, will skim past Earth today at a speed of 17,518 mph and a ...

NASA has confirmed the asteroid 2025 MV89 is en route. The space rock is about 120 feet across, roughly plane-sized. It is ...

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NASA has flagged a close encounter with an asteroid named 2025 MV89. The space rock, which is about 120 feet wide (roughly ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth ...