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 ...

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

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

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

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

With our planet's history of close calls, it seems practical these days to get a doomsday bunker, if you can convince someone ...

NASA alerts the public as asteroid 2024 UT7, a 190-foot-wide space rock, flies dangerously close to Earth today. Travelling at high speed, it's closely monitored for potential impact risks.

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

The South Taurid and North Taurid meteor showers peak in early November. Here's everything you need to know about this ...

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A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...