NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

A bus-sized asteroid called 2026 CC3 will fly close to Earth today as NASA tracks the spatial object.

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday. Related Articles. King pen ...

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

NASA confirms that asteroid 2026 CC3, about the size of a bus, will make a close flyby of Earth on March 11, 2026, at a distance roughly four times that of the Moon’s orbit. Is this asteroid a "danger ...

Explore Earth's cutting-edge defenses against asteroid impacts in this comprehensive overview. Learn how NASA and ESA are tracking thousands of Near-Earth Objects using advanced systems like SENTRY II ...

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...