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

China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should return in late 2027 with samples of a space ...

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A potential asteroid strike on the moon calculated by NASA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Webb telescope captured a photo of the asteroid 2024 YR4 from afar. European Space Agency via AP I was preparing for my ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...