The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 23,197 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

File this in the “Better to learn about after-the-fact file”: A large asteroid flew past Earth Tuesday night, just days after ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

DNA from a distance ...

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the ...

A fast-moving asteroid, 2026 FR2, will pass Earth at a “close” distance, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still watching it so carefully?

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

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

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully ...