The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...
NASA is set to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they pass safely by Earth ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.