Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

SpaceX launched the 11th flight test of its Starship, the two-stage, heavy-lift launch vehicle designed to take humans back ...

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A small asteroid passed just 270 miles from Earth before scientists detected it, marking one of the closest near-misses ever ...

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to bring home the space agency’s ...

3I/ATLAS is named for its status as one of three interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as ...

An asteroid recently made the second closest pass to Earth ever observed on October 1st. And astronomers only found it after ...

This ancient catastrophe drastically shaped the Moon’s structure. Its crust is much thicker on the far side than on the near side, a perplexing asymmetry long studied by scientists.

An asteroid named 2025 TF recently passed Earth at a very close distance. It flew nearer than many satellites orbiting our ...