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 ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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 ...

In two years, NASA will demonstrate its asteroid deflection technology on the newly named Dimorphos, a moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency's first full-scale ...

The Asteroid Foundation’s annual Asteroid Day LIVE programme returns in person Thursday 30 June 2022 at 11:00 CET. After two years as a digital event, astronauts, experts and science communicators […] ...

Five asteroids will pass Earth in the days before International Asteroid Day on Sunday. But don’t worry — scientists say none of these sun-orbiting rocks pose any immediate risk to us. Despite being ...

Summer is almost underway across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the warmest weather and some of the most challenging stargazing conditions. June's short nights are the biggest factor for ...

Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...