Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

Spread the loveIn an exciting astronomical event, a newly discovered asteroid, designated as 2026 EG1, is set to make a close approach to Earth on the evening of March 12, 2026. This space rock, ...

Spread the loveIn an exciting celestial event, a newly discovered asteroid, designated 2026 EG1, is set to make a close approach to Earth on the night of March 12, 2026. Measuring between 32 to 72 ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2026 EG1, is set to make an exceptionally close pass by Earth on the night of March 12, 2026.

When people think of asteroids, they tend to picture rare, civilization-ending impacts like those depicted in movies such as "Armageddon." In reality, the asteroids most likely to affect modern ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations show how it went.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there’s now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR will crash into the moon in 2032.