The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The primary goal, he said, is to make sure Odin turns on and communicates back to Earth. Mission success, Gialich told his ...

AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to ...

The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by NASA to scan the sky in search of near-Earth asteroids, said Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at JPL and CNEOS.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

A program under the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Sentry tracks any known asteroids that have a non-zero probability of hitting Earth.

Five asteroids are expected to make close approaches to Earth this weekend. A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...