NASA has reached major milestones in asteroid exploration. Here are five highlights.

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of International Asteroid Day. In the decade since the United Nations established the ...

The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart on Saturday May 30 ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson does not move through space with the tidy, steady spin scientists often expect. It tumbles in a more ...

NASA says asteroid 2003 LN6, about 130 feet wide, will make a close approach to Earth on June 18, 2026. Here's how close it ...

Asteroid 2003 LN6, the size of 38 Menachem Mendel Schneersons, is set to pass the Earth on June 18, the anniversary of the ...

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA researchers​ say.

NASA’s secret mission to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth is the focus of HAMMER, a title that links space exploration ...

Astronomers believe the object, dubbed 'Oumuamua, came from the general direction of the Lyra constellation ...

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon ...