During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

MH4, nearly three football fields long, will sweep past Earth on May 24, 2025. Its considerable size and speed have drawn the ...

By late February, experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had analyzed new data submitted by astronomers worldwide. The ...

A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

Watch a stadium-size asteroid pass Earth today — and learn why this one isn’t 2024 YR4, the asteroid that had scientists and ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...