Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

Across the globe, technology that is designed to generate solar energy could potentially be employed for yet another ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

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

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...