NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

A distance of 56,000 miles may sound like a lot but it’s just a whisker on the scale of space encounters and it’s how close a ...

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to ...

A newly discovered asteroid will make a close encounter with Earth on Monday. Calculations show it will be significantly ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about as long as the Lincoln Memorial is tall is set to fly between the moon and ...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 56,000 miles from Earth on May 18, giving astronomers a rare close-up view.

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some ...