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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially activated its automated alert system, to explore and detect the object movements in space. The system went live on February 24 and generated ...

The next asteroid won’t come with a warning siren. What happens after it’s discovered could determine everything.

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 ...

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.

On nights when an asteroid is scheduled to pass Earth, a certain type of silence is present. It's not a storm warning's ...

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

A factual look at projections of a potential 2032 asteroid impact on the Moon, including how scientists track near-Earth objects and assess impact probabilities.

A car sized asteroid can sound like a cliffhanger, yet the real tension lives in the math. NASA’s trackers list 2026 CR2 for a close pass on Feb. 17, 2026, moving about 12,616 miles per hour, with an ...

Scientists have found evidence that amino acids, the chemical building blocks of life (specifically proteins), formed on the asteroid Bennu when it was so far from the Sun as to be frozen. This ...

NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...