A new method could pave the way for low-cost, round trips to asteroids.

The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around 20,000 miles from Earth's surface on April 13, 2029—closer than many satellites ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

It is likely to trigger damage like the Chelyabinsk object that injured 1,500 people in Russia.

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had come ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...

Asteroid impacts represent a formidable natural phenomenon with the capacity to alter Earth’s environment on both local and global scales. The collision of near‐Earth objects (NEOs) with our planet ...

The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...