An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

The Asteroid Foundation’s annual Asteroid Day LIVE programme returns in person Thursday 30 June 2022 at 11:00 CET. After two years as a digital event, astronauts, experts and science communicators […] ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5 is a building-sized asteroid that is scheduled to make a close approach to Earth on July 17, capturing the attention of astronomers, scientists, and space agencies worldwide.

The United Nations in 2016 established June 30 as International Asteroid Day to raise awareness potentially hazardous asteroids and the efforts to find and track them. The eighth annual World Asteroid ...

A cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm recently found a 600-foot-wide space rock flying through space. This space rock is called 2022 SF289, and it is about as wide as almost two ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...