New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.

The European Space Agency is about to launch a spacecraft on an important research mission designed to bolster planetary ...

Earth's moon soon won't be the only orbiting body in the sky. 'Mini-moon' asteroid 2024 PT5 will soon be here.

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...

It has been estimated by NASA that approximately 48.5 tonnes of meteoric material enter our atmosphere daily, which signifies ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is currently tracking three asteroids scheduled to pass Earth on 25 025.

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...

The small asteroid was discovered on Aug. 7 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a NASA-funded program. Now named asteroid 2024 PT5, it will be captured in Earth's ...