Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

A massive asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass near Earth at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers on March 5, 2025. Traveling at 28,300 kilometers per hour, it poses no immediate ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.