Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.
New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.
A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...
NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar ...
"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.
The asteroid, which was about the size of a humpback whale or a school bus, passed within 200,000 miles of Earth Thursday night, before heading out to space.
According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.
Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) have changed the course of an asteroid in order to ...
The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour ...