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

“Our research has implications not just for asteroid detection and planetary defense, but also for our broader understanding ...

An asteroid, the size of India Gate, will pass close to Earth today. The asteroid, named 2019 VU5, is travelling at a speed ...

Hopefully, NASA finds the results it was hoping for, as it would put dreams of having an asteroid defense system even closer to becoming a reality. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade ...

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.

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

It worked and marked a watershed moment in planetary defense. The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system.

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

By recreating an asteroid impact emergency and getting participants to offer suggestions as to how they’d deal with it, the hope is that weaknesses in Earth’s planetary defense system are ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...