asteroid

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away ...

It appears that planet Earth has assumed babysitting duties for a minor space object that came too close ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an ...

They seem to shoot from the constellation of the twins Gemini, but the bold, bright, white shards of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft—a jumble ...

Samples of Asteroid Bennu landed in the Utah desert on Sept. 24.

NASA holds a briefing at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 24 after asteroid rock samples collected by the ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year ...

A suitcase packed with asteroid rocks will enter Earth’s atmosphere and land in Utah after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...

Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery—the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A NASA spacecraft ...

NASA has said that a "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring the size of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge is projected ...

The ancient space traveler landed in her house, of all places! While it's not unusual to see meteors ...

Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing ...

  WASHINGTON—NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at a spot between two boulders during last September's ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a minivan will skim past Earth on Thursday night, coming closer than ...

Astronomers have discovered three asteroids hiding in the sun's glare, one of which could potentially collide with Earth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The world now has stunning new photos of this week’s asteroid strike, the first planetary defense ...

NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully struck a football stadium-sized asteroid in a historic test of the world’s first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions ...

NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named DART (Double ...

A gargantuan space rock over 2.5 times the size of the Empire State Building is set to whiz ...

It's the stuff of Hollywood movies, but the threat to Earth by hazardous asteroids is rooted in fact, ...

This week, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced plans to send a probe to land on ...