A new equation using gravitational light bending enhances asteroid detection, improving defenses against potential impacts, ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...

Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

The asteroid is going to safely pass by Earth on Nov. 26, and astronomers say it’s one of many near-Earth objects (NEO).

After a two-month visit, 2024 PT5 is ready to continue its cosmic journey—but it will be back in a few decades.

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

HAPPENING IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAD DEMONSTRATED YOU COULD ACTUALLY DEFLECT AN ASTEROID USING A ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close ...