Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Despite losing both of its spacecraft, the startup is preparing for its $55 million Mission 3, which will launch next year.

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified ...