Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.

SpaceX: Dragon spacecraft that will bring home Starliner astronauts launches on Crew-9 mission "Mini-moon" events are when ...

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

29, the asteroid, which was discovered by NASA on Aug. 7 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, will be orbiting the Earth for about two months until Nov. 25. Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impac ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

As Earth continues its timeless journey around the Sun, it is not alone in its celestial voyage. Our faithful Moon has always ...

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan ...