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.

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

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government agency - full name National Aeronautics and Space Administration - announced ...

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

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

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 ...