"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

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

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

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

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing the Critical ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

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

Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 poses nearly zero risk of impacting Earth in 2032.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

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