A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

Is it better to deploy a nuclear warhead on an asteroid after a deep crater impact, or a shallow impact? When you purchase ...

NASA is launching a mission to combat '100% chance' of killer asteroids hitting Earth as it hit the tenth anniversary of ...

More than a century after an asteroid exploded over Tunguska, astronomers are preparing for a new era of asteroid detection ...

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of International Asteroid Day. In the decade since the United Nations established the ...

When we think of planet killer asteroids, survival odds might seem slim. But we aren't defenseless.

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger. The space rock — 1997 NC1 — makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.

Investing in interplanetary defense isn’t expensive, and it could save the planet. NASA has catalogued more than 40,000 asteroids whose paths approach Earth’s orbit. Here is where they are now.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it’s also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the way ...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a skyscraper ... or at least, it's something as big as those things. Several large asteroids are set to pass by Earth this week, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

You can take to the virtual skies without having to download the Google Earth desktop app. You can take to the virtual skies without having to download the ...