The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
A large asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium, is set to pass Earth on . Named 2024 RV50, this asteroid measures about 710 ...
There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...
NASA, along with other space agencies, has developed an advanced network of telescopes and computational systems to identify ...
Researchers from the University of Maryland used the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope to study the Taurid swarm.
The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
On October 7, NASA inspected the approximate approach of asteroid 2024 TW2, a large rock formation that swiftly passed Earth at an impressive ... defense During the pass-by of 2024 TW2, no alert ...