Explore the potential benefits and risks of using nuclear weapons to deflect an incoming asteroid.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for the next several years.

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Astronomers studied it for clues to how early planets grew, and what Earth might have looked like in its infancy.

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...