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

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping scientists find a suitable landing spot on the space rock that turned out to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched ...

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head towards Earth.

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid ...

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.