The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Two giant asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

Scientists have just made a mind-blowing discovery: a fossil dating back to the day the asteroid caused the mass extinction ...

The stadium-size asteroid is considered a "potentially hazardous object," but poses no threat to Earth this year.

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking three asteroids. These celestial visitors will safely pass Earth on December 12, ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring three asteroids set to pass Earth on December 11, 2024. Though moving at ...

Three asteroids, 2018 XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are ...