COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Newly discovered research indicates that the long search for the fifth fundamental force of nature could be right before us- ...

Rocky Foundations There may be a fifth fundamental force of the universe that we haven't documented yet — and, according to ...

Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...

This “mini-moon” emerged from an asteroid named 2024 PT5, officially joining Earth’s orbit on Sept. 29. The asteroid was ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

An asteroid, 2024 ON, comparable in size to the Eiffel Tower, recently captured media attention but posed no actual threat to ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...