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.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

On October 31, 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew by Earth. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com It ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The asteroids will not be visible from Earth, but scientists may be able to capture radar images of the space rocks ... approaches to Earth as part of its Asteroid Watch dashboard.

and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to bounce radar waves off its surface and return an image of what it looked like. Dubbed the Halloween Asteroid, it was revealed to be fairly special. Why ...

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two ...