Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

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

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to Asteroid Bennu faced an unexpected obstacle when the asteroid’s surface proved far different ...

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 gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...