NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...

Several asteroids will pass by Earth in the next few days, some of them getting shockingly close in astronomical terms. … ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke apart 20,000 years ago, are happening at ...

Two airplane-sized asteroids are set to make a close approach to Earth on November 5, 2024. Read below to know their details.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches ...

When asteroids come within 4,600,000 miles of Earth (like the aforementioned three), they have some components of being qualified as potentially hazardous objects. What saved them from gaining full ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.