The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
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 is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...
In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...
According to NASA, which regularly tracks cosmetic activity, a giant asteroid will pass by Earth on Tuesday, January 28.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...