The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Telescopes across the globe will track it so that astronomers can determine its exact location and make predictions about ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%. Astronomers now say a ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.