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

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.