Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
The ATLAS survey, a four-telescope system tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, first observed the asteroid in images ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
Given the implications for planetary defense, near-Earth asteroids are closely tracked ... "These results highlight the ...
Apophis, which is scheduled to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, is a massive ‘city-killer’ roughly the size of the Empire ...
ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...
Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...
An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done yet. A new study of Bennu tracking data gives us fresh clues on a potential ...
The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.
Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly the length of the Golden G ...