In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

New Delhi: Astronomers are closely monitoring two near-Earth objects (NEOs), 2022 SS2 and 2015 SA as they soon fly past the Earth and the Moon. They both fall in different asteroid classifications but ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...

Whew. Earth has dodged an asteroid scare. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was looming large in humanity's vision. At one point, it was calculated to have a roughly 3.1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.