The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

But, along with the contemporaneous Deep Impact, these movies brought the very real threat of asteroid strikes to global attention. Among other factors, these movies also arguably helped convince ...

Lewis estimates that there are around 3,800 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that are more accessible and require less fuel to ...

"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 ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space. Some of Hera ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...