For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Great galaxy, a bubble gum asteroid is heading for for the Star Trek: Scouts school! Can the kids stop it in time?

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

When astronomers talk about asteroid Apophis, the mood is a mix of fascination and unease. Discovered in 2004 and quickly ...

NASA set out to stop a dangerous asteroid — but the mission ended up creating a brand-new problem no one expected. In this video, we’ll break down what went wrong, why the impact didn’t behave the way ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have narrow viewing windows on February 18 and 26 to gather crucial data on the ...