A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially activated its automated alert system, to explore and detect the object movements ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried ...

A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce ...

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.