A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our skies ...

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

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis ... happen if Apophis hits Earth? Currently, Apophis is not expected ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

In contrast, millions of asteroids that have escaped the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter flit about worryingly close to Earth, and are considerably more likely to hit us. Fortunately ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.