An asteroid measuring over 160 feet across will impact Earth only about every 1,000 years.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," ...

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 near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

Asteroids 2026 LD and 2026 KM3, both comparable in size to airplanes, will make a close approach to Earth on June 9, 2026.

Pop culture has been lying to you about what happens in outer space. See some of the wildest space rumors that NASA has ...

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it ...

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...