The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

At least 10 asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth over a three-day window between December 18 and December 20, ...

Dinosaurs ruled Earth for millions of years, but according to the most widely accepted theory, a massive asteroid wiped them ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third large interstellar visitor (an asteroid or a comet) known to have passed through our solar system ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 XV, a 290-foot building-sized object, set to safely pass Earth on December 18.

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Telescopes across the globe will track it so that astronomers can determine its exact location and make predictions about ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

The space object, which was only recently discovered by scientists, will pass closest to Earth on Friday, December 19. Here's ...