Recent studies provide unexpected insights into the population of potentially dangerous asteroids orbiting near Earth. A team ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The huge space rocks that are set to pass by Earth later today could cause untold devastation should they ever impact the ...

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.

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by ...