The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In our solar system, thousands of asteroids orbit dangerously close to Earth, known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Among them, one asteroid has sparked significant concern: Apophis. This massive ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

Scientists are looking to the skies today as a huge asteroid is set to skim past Earth at more than 20,000mph as NASA track ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

Astronomers continue to track Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever discovered interstellar object, passing through our solar system ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...