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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. There are over 32,000 near-Earth asteroids flying through space near our planet.

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

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.