NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule ...

A fast-moving 2026 FF6 will pass close to Earth, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still tracking it so closely?

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history.

NASA is expanding its work with commercial space companies, including Blue Origin, as the agency advances efforts to find and track asteroids that could threaten Earth. Blue Origin’s current NASA work ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora of Hollywood movies on the subject has demonstrated. But there is a less-known threa ...