The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA has identified a 210-foot, airplane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today, although scientists assure it will not ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2018 BY6, measuring approximately 210 feet across, is set to pass Earth today at a safe distance.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Why is NASA crashing into an asteroid? NASA isn’t just wasting an expensive, sophisticated spacecraft for fun. The agency is doing its job. In 2005, Congress set a mandate for NASA to find, by ...