Through a series of 28 pictures, astronomers learned the asteroid makes a full spin every five hours and is a " contact ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

An asteroid the size of a commercial jet passed closer to Earth than the Moon on September 3, 2025, in a high-speed flyby ...

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying ...

It’s early fall 2022, and amid rows ... rehearsals of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The mission represents the agency’s ambitious bet that it can take aim at asteroids on a collision ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results.