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

Several asteroids will pass by Earth in the next few days, some of them getting shockingly close in astronomical terms. … ...

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

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

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

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches ...

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

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 ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...

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.