A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The largest asteroid of the incoming quartet ... Fortunately, scientists are able to use these “near misses” to capture radar images of the asteroids, potentially gleaning insight into ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera snapped this view of Earth and the moon. The clearest of the three images ESA released on Oct. 14 comes from Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera, which is used for ...

Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth (main) and a bus (inset). Asteroid (2024 UQ1), which is roughly bus-sized, is due to pass closer to the Earth than the moon. Stock images of an asteroid ...

However, during Apophis' approach in 2021, astronomers used radar observations to refine their knowledge of the asteroid's ...

The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away. Hera's images of the Earth ...

Related: Behold the 1st images of DART's wild asteroid crash ... Juventas, which will perform a radar study of the interior of Dimorphos, was switched on via radio command on Oct. 17, when ...

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified success when it slammed into the 560-foot-wide (170 meters) asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger space rock ...