A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...

It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock. An asteroid ...

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth since records began, sailing safely past our planet at more than eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon.

HELSINKI — China should intensify its asteroid research and focus on sample return mission plans, according to scientists. China’s future asteroid exploration should focus on “low-cost ...

A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...

An asteroid is expected to come extremely close to the Earth on Thursday, skimming past us as it flies off into the cosmos. The asteroid, named 2024 GJ2, will zip past our planet at a distance of ...

Bennu may exist as a midsize asteroid in a near-Earth orbit today, but the team suspects that, eons ago, its water-loaded parent first took shape beyond the snow line—a diffuse thermal ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Exploration Labs, a Southern California startup focused on space resources, is planning a 2028 mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before it reaches Earth.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

We asked the honorees of the Channel Chiefs 2018 list to tell us how they personally helped solve a problem for a solution provider partner in the last year. We asked the honorees of the Channel ...

An asteroid the size of around 89 wolverines is set to pass the Earth on Monday, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question, dubbed 2021 CF6 as noted by the Center for Near ...

Ever since we learned that an asteroid slammed into Earth, wiped out the dinosaurs, and changed the course of life on this planet, scientists have wondered if it could happen again. It turns out there ...