Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

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

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

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

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

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.

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.

The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.

Scientists first caught sight of the mini-moon while observing an asteroid named Polymele, near the outskirts of the solar system. NASA says that the asteroid is around 17 miles along its widest axis.

This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space rock smaller than a planet ... We are confident that we know where all of the large asteroids are and that none of them will hit the Earth anytime ...

We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ... coming from the moon, Mars or Vesta, which is one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt.

An asteroid the ... future space rocks from hitting Earth. The smallest asteroid, called 2024 TA12, measures approximately 14 feet and will come between the Earth and moon. Meanwhile, a bus ...