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

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

When Earth and the hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis pass by each other in five years’ time, the passage through Earth’s ...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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