The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on nearly 40,000 large objects out there with the hope of avoiding the fate of ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from which ...