On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center is getting a major boost from NASA to help students explore the ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

With its 8-meter mirror and 3.2-gigapixel camera, Rubin will take images of the full sky every three nights, allowing the quick identification and follow-up of potentially hazardous asteroids ...

NASA made history by deliberately smashing a spacecraft into a large asteroid, altering its course and demonstrating humankind’s ability to protect our planet from "potentially hazardous" space rocks ...

Asteroids that can’t get any closer to our planet than one-twentieth of Earth’s distance from the sun are not considered to be potentially hazardous asteroids, according to NASA.