While this proximity poses no danger to Earth, researchers believe the encounter could literally shake up the 1,100-foot-long ...

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

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

CEO Matt Gialich envisions a future where mining in space alleviates Earth’s resource constraints by tapping into the vast, ...

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

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

Like other asteroids its size, Apophis is not spherical. Consequently, it rotates at different rates around two different ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

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

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