For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each time.!

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

NASA is currently tracking a bus-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on January 31 at a whopping 8,478 miles per hour. Known as 2022 OC3, the space rock is estimated to be about 24 feet across ...

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NASA is monitoring a house-sized asteroid that is speeding towards Earth at more than 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Marenfeld / NSF's NOIRLab Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking ...

An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man. Forget world records because astronomers recently announced ...