The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...

Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will ...

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 TC, about 44 feet wide, will make a near pass by our planet on 3 October.

NASA confirmed that asteroid 2025 SZ27 is heading towards Earth on 4 October. The space rock measures about 100 feet across.

A paper from NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon should ...

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...

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

With an asteroid threatening impact with the moon in 2032, NASA explores all possible avenues to avert catastrophe—even ...