The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

In a bizarre misinterpretation by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, the discovery of a new asteroid orbiting near Earth was later identified as Musk’s car ...

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

A system of telescopes monitors near-Earth objects and sends the data to NASA ... It sent a rocket to strike an asteroid named Dimorphos, orbiting a much larger asteroid named Didymos, a target at a ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably ... what the possible impacts would be should it strike Earth. If the asteroid is on the smaller end, ESA said any potential ...

The two Lagrange points where they might exist, L4 and L5, are notoriously difficult to observe from Earth. “Any asteroid orbiting around these points will only be visible during a short time ...