The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

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

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

NASA is tracking two asteroids, 2021 TK11 and 2024 TH3, set to pass near Earth on 14 October 2024. Although these space rocks ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is actively monitoring three asteroids making close approaches to Earth on 13 October ...

No one alive has seen that, an asteroid that close to the Earth, with the naked eye," Lawrence said. According to the space and astronomy website EarthSky, Apophis also will be visible on April ...

NASA, along with other space agencies, has developed an advanced network of telescopes and computational systems to identify ...

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

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...

2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...