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 ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, five asteroids will fly past Earth, close enough to be categorized as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...