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

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

An asteroid the size of a bus that is being dubbed a "mini-moon" has begun orbiting earth. Brian Hackney reports.

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

For the next two months, an unusual object about the size of a bus will be orbiting above our heads. Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid ...

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

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

The school bus-sized asteroid will be orbiting Earth until Nov. 25. At least five times further from Earth than our true moon at its closest approach, the asteroid is much too tiny to be seen with ...

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

An asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, will become a ‘mini-moon’ of Earth for a few weeks, orbiting our planet before escaping Earth’s gravity and resuming its orbit of the Sun. The 33-foot asteroid will ...

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 asteroid is expected to swing by Earth next week, then spend about two months orbiting the planet as it gets temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity, according to two astronomers in Spain who ...