The giraffe-sized asteroid flew over Antarctica unnoticed.

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The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

THE United Nations has officially confirmed the Earth’s planetary defences will be tested by the bizarre 31/ATLAS comet that ...

The Australian company HEO Robotics wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, conducting its own flyby of the ...

I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers (168 ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

Don't look now, but an asteroid is heading our way on Halloween. On the other hand, go ahead and look. As it misses Earth by about 300,000 miles (slightly farther away than the moon), the asteroid, ...

A sizable asteroid is going to make a close pass to Earth next week, scientists say, but there's no need to panic. The asteroid known as 4660 Nereus will come as close as 2.5 million miles to Earth - ...