The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A planetary defense specialist is cautioning that humanity remains unprotected against as many as 15,000 near-Earth asteroids that ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mosaic of Bennu created from observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which was in ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...

NASA has confirmed that a fireball and booms seen in northeast Ohio on March 17 was an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere.