A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...

NASA is closely observing an asteroid named 2024 ON, which measures about 1,150 feet by 590 feet and travels at approximately ...

Space agencies in the United States and Europe have confirmed that an asteroid the size of a stadium was set to pass Earth on ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

A potentially hazardous asteroid the size of a skyscraper is set to zip past Earth on September 17, according to NASA.

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is coming close to Earth and will zoom past us on Sep 17, NASA said. The asteroid, named ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

On early Thursday, a small asteroid approximately 1.2 meters in diameter entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of approximately 20 kilometers per second and exploded at an altitude of about 25 ...