The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier ...

A massive, house-sized asteroid is streaking through space at a blistering 42,300 miles per hour, coming alarmingly close to Earth. Measuring between 49 to 111 feet in diameter, it is one of several ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of ... the Marin ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's hurtling through space at around 14,000 miles per hour. Measuring about 42 feet in ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid ...

The space agency said that "NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future" and "the range of possible locations ...