On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes...

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists probe the logistics...

Imagine hauling in enough platinum, gold, and rare earth metals to bankroll every American's wildest dreams–or potentially tank the global e...

A killer asteroid slammed into Earth at 27,000 mph around 66 million years ago. Where is it now?

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working out ways to prev...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was...

The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestia...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, possibly leftover fro...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests.

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1 min readNear-Earth Asteroids as of September 2025Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly u...

The parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu appears to have harbored water in the form of ice for over a billion years, Japanese researcher...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a-millennium pla...

Asteroid 2025 QV5, which was first spotted in late August, will make a close approach to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 3). It will not get this...