A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth. Scientists have revealed that the historic planetary event will be ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s expected to zoom past our planet tonight at around 19,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

LOS ANGELES - The largest asteroid to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on Sunday, providing astronomers a rare chance to see the giant rock that formed at the dawn of our solar system ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

The European space agency (ESA) signed a deal worth 129 million euros ($154 million) on Tuesday to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to deflect an asteroid heading for ...

Launched in November 2021, DART traveled for more than 10 months before crashing into Dimorphos at roughly 14,000 mph. Though the tiny asteroid posed no threat to Earth, NASA had set out to test a ...