The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA’s HAMMER mission is focused on preventing asteroids from impacting Earth. Watch this video to understand how the agency ...

NASA has been tracking objects in space for years. However, the James Webb Telescope detected an asteroid that came ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

The audacious plan was revealed by Los Angeles-based startup TransAstra. The “New Moon” mission is a project designed to rendezvous with a house-sized space rock weighing roughly 100 metric tonnes and ...

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself apart ...

Western University research scientist, specializing in meteor physics, says seven-ton meteor released energy similar to the Beirut explosion and left rare rocks in Ohio.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff can sometimes be seen from Volusia County to Palm Beach, pending weather ...

Thankfully, the vast majority cause no damage because they are pulverized into dust or small chunks by the journey to Earth.