Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Asteroid 2025 YU15 will sweep past Earth at remarkable speed this February, drawing global attention and raising questions about how closely scientists are watching the next celestial visitor.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

One reason for the decline in extinction rates is the growing momentum of conservation efforts. Multiple species have been ...