A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

When Apophis was discovered in 2004, initial calculations indicated that it could approach Earth with a risk of collision.

Meanwhile, to prepare for any future asteroid threats, Nasa's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is developing methods to ...

NASA issued an alert on the asteroid 2019 VU5, a near-Earth object, which is going to pass dangerously close to Earth today.

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

“Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid swarm is much lower than we believed, ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

"As this once-every-seven-thousand-years opportunity will teach us a lot about the behavior of asteroid surfaces that will be needed for planetary defense and future human exploration." NASA's ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...