Asteroid 2026 CU1 will sweep past Earth this week at high speed, close enough to attract attention yet deemed safe, raising ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

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 ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

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