Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

NASA is keeping an eye on near-Earth objects. One such object is a small asteroid called 2026 FB. This asteroid is expected ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have been found to contain all five nucleobases, adding to evidence that ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about ...

Two asteroids namely VO142 and 2026 EZ2 will fly past safely on March 17. NASA is monitoring both closely for science and safety.

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...