As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

"TIRI will image the Dimorphos asteroid in the mid-infrared spectral region to chart the temperature on ... physical ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Named after Apep, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis is a 1,100-foot-long (340 meters), peanut-shaped asteroid.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

Its flyby is noteworthy due to the asteroid’s size, as even objects of this scale can cause significant impact events if they were to stray closer. The second asteroid, 2024 UX6, is slightly ...

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed ... Measuring around 450 by 170 meters—roughly the size of New York's Empire State Building—Apophis could cause ...