A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

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

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

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 ...

Meteors that could destroy an entire U.S. state are a real threat to Earth, NASA’s chief warned on Monday. Speaking at the Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C., NASA Administrator Jim ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Perseverance mission spotted a possible large meteorite, called Phippsaksla, in September ...

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

According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.

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 ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

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 ...