Europe's Hera spacecraft has gotten its first close-up look at the Didymos binary asteroid, the first space rock system ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk arrived without warning, injured 1,500 people and damaged thousands of buildings.

Scientists have discovered all five essential nucleobases used in DNA and RNA in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, ...

Hera's view shows the side of Didymos that NASA's spacecraft never saw before the crash. The "backside" looks remarkably ...

In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft smacked into a cosmic rock named Dimorphos at a ...

Asteroid flyby 2026 UE2 passes Earth tonight at 80,500 miles -- roughly one-third the distance to the Moon -- after the ...

An asteroid’s uneven shape could strongly affect a nuclear deflection attempt. Sandia simulations show why choosing the right ...

Scientists have developed a computer model that simulates asteroid deflection more than 1,600 times faster than earlier ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

What a fresh lunar crater reveals about incoming asteroids — and how we can nuke them In the spring of 2024, the Lunar ...

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have set the stage for ants to conquer the planet, with a surprising boost from ...

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs ...