As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

In a new update, the space agency has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, with the probability of impact rising to 3.1 per cent or one-in-32 odds of impact — the ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

Hayabusa2 is now headed for the small, near-spherical asteroid 1998 ... the journey back to Earth, with the sample capsule ...

An asteroid is headed toward a close approach ... the asteroid had a near-zero chance of hitting Earth. Phew. The news gets even better—new observations from Webb double down on the confirmation ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.

Three Tucson scientists are featured in "Planetary Defenders," a new NASA documentary that premieres Wednesday about the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide ... first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal ...