A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...