Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

which keeps close tabs on space rocks’ trajectories and flags potentially dangerous asteroids. “It’s still not bulletproof,” he said, “and the issue is the number of new launches of ...

As telescope technology has improved, the number of asteroids spotted has increased, although the number of space rocks remains the same ... overpressure generated by the shockwave at Earth’s surface.

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury ... a harmless asteroid to practice thwarting a space rock, should a hazardous one ever be on a collision ...

Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

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.

NASA and the ESA regularly track thousands of near-Earth asteroids, but depending on the size, the space rocks are not always easy to spot. But improvements in asteroid survey technology ...