NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Geminid meteor shower and stargazing at the Tunnel View of Yosemite National Park in California, United States on ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

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 ...

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

Early Tuesday morning may be the best chance to wish upon a shooting star ahead of the holidays. According to NASA, the Geminid meteor shower will peak late Monday night into early Tuesday morning.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – An asteroid predicted to be the largest to sweep by Earth this year will make its closest approach to the planet on the first full day of spring, according to NASA. But not to ...

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

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...