asteroid

The kilometer-wide asteroid, named 1994 PC1 (7482), is roughly the length of 10 football fields.

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids

NASA says it will crash a spacecraft into the moonlet of the Didymos asteroid to change its trajectory, a test of methods to protect the Earth from hazardous asteroids.

Scientists have fine-tuned the path of the asteroid Bennu and say the odds of it smacking into Earth are higher than previously thought but still quite low

Watch out for September 24, 2187: if the asteroid called Bennu is going to collide with Earth, that’s when it’s going to happen. In the meantime, a team of scientists sent a lander to the asteroid to collect samples. Determining what the asteroid is made of can help track its trajectory, and also provide insight into the beginnings of...

A NASA spacecraft is headed back to Earth with rubble it collected from an asteroid nearly 200 million miles away.

The Earth is safe for at least 100 years from the asteroid known as Apophis, which had earlier been identified as one of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact the planet, according to a NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory analysis released Friday.

A NASA spacecraft circling an ancient asteroid 200 million miles away is about to reach out and make contact.

What looks like an asteroid may just be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission more than 50 years ago.