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 ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

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

Apophis will make its closest to Earth in 2029, giving astronomers ... or even eliminate other bodies orbiting the asteroid (rocks, satellites, or rings).” With his team, he analyzed the ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032, with scientists previously calculating impact probability at around three per cent, the highest value ...

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 ...