The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every ...

Brace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that ...

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history.

Astronomers have issued an interesting update for skygazers: a rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye. Asteroid ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope into space to find them.

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

NASA’s DART mission turned out to be more than a one-off asteroid collision. According to the transcript, the impact not only ...

There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth. Asteroid-2024-YR4 NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely miss both Earth and the moon in 2032. Webb telescope enabled ...

Earth has long been deemed safe from a calamitous collision with a certain small asteroid in 2032. The moon, on the other hand, remained under threat for a little while longer. Finally, though, ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...