"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

What happens when NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid? Scientists thought they knew, but the results of the DART ...

But while YR4 was eventually ruled out as a threat during its flyby in 2032, the asteroid passing Earth on Friday, May 9, never posed any danger to begin with. The gigantic space rock, which NASA ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid ... How scientists worldwide work to predict space threats Space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), in association with global ...

A massive, house-sized asteroid is streaking through space at a blistering 42,300 miles per hour, coming alarmingly close to Earth. Measuring between 49 to 111 feet in diameter, it is one of several ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in just a few hours. The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a ...

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. The main ...

NASA’s extended asteroid mission, now called OSIRIS-APEX, will reach the asteroid after its flyby. ESA’s complementary RAMSES mission will study the asteroid with a different suite of ...