One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...

Asteroid 2026 FM3 was discovered only days before making a close pass by Earth. Learn how close it got, whether it posed any ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

Since moving operations here in 2023, ExLabs has set the goal of building a spacecraft that will intercept a passing asteroid ...

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NASA's CNEOS is monitoring asteroid 2026 FB4 as it passes Earth at 23,000 mph today. Learn about its size, speed, and why ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s private space company, revealed plans to play a pivotal role in Earth’s defense against dangerous ...

It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully ...

NASA has confirmed that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 that had a chance of slamming into the Moon and possibly sending meteors tumbling towards Earth will completely miss the lunar surface. The ...

(CNN) — The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...