Sometimes you do a thing just to see what happens afterwards, such is the case of NASA's DART mission which launched a ...

It’s not the giant, planet-ending asteroids from Hollywood movies that concern NASA the most. And it’s not the tiny space rocks that burn up harmlessly in our atmosphere. Instead, scientists say the ...

A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there's currently no defense humanity could use to stop them. Kelly Fast, a planetary defense officer at ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to protect Earth from any asteroids that could do our planet harm. Called the Near-Earth ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is monitoring three asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist who ...