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 ...

Also visible tonight and this week over Monterey County are several comets, asteroids and other planetary wonders ... which collides with Earth's atmosphere. Two independent discoveries of the comet ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

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

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...

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

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

Instead, it will pass by Earth safely at a distance of 19,794 miles (31,860 kilometers), about one-twelfth the distance from the Earth to the moon. Nevertheless ... Earth is in constant danger of ...