The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft concluded its 15-year mission. The spacecraft identified around 3,000 near-Earth objects. NEOWISE's ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...