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

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

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

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 Ryugu asteroid particles reveals stable magnetization acquired within millions of years of solar ...

"A meteor the size of a softball can produce a flash as bright as the full moon and qualify as a fireball," Lunsford said in ...

Residents around B.C. reported hearing a loud boom and seeing a bright flash of light in the sky Tuesday evening. Experts say ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head ...