Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

Elon Musk and SpaceX reminisced about the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket seven years ago on Thursday.

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its first close approach to Mars on Oct. 7, 2020.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...

New NASA observations show a near-Earth asteroid with more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth in seven years.