China has launched the ambitious Tianwen-2 mission aimed at studying the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. The mission is set to ...

They can tell us about the vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ago, the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs ...

"This is a natural disaster that is 100% preventable if we do our homework." On Thursday (May 15), the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science and Technology convened with scientists to discuss a ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts.

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details. Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan ...

The last major asteroid impact on Earth was the Tunguska Event in 1908 in Siberia, where an asteroid, estimated to be between 50–100 meters in diameter, exploded in the Earth's atmosphere and ...

NASA is dispatching the DART spacecraft to smack a moonlet (foreground), shoving it into a new orbit around its asteroid. In March 1989, an asteroid twice the size of a football field careened ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind ...

A massive, house-sized asteroid is streaking through space at a blistering 42,300 miles per hour, coming alarmingly close to Earth. Measuring between 49 to 111 feet in diameter, it is one of ...

At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about ...