NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, eliminating previous lunar impact concerns.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.