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The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

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NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 OY12 is on course. The airplane-sized space rock is moving at 27,422 miles per hour.

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The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has wandered into ...