Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

NASA is closely monitoring a massive asteroid named 462959 (2011 DU), which is set to pass near Earth at 9:15 PM IST. , ...

An asteroid passing by Earth. Research suggests there may be a hidden population of lunar fragments traveling near Earth. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Earth's minimoon ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...