It was first discovered at over seven Earth-sun distances by astronomers at China’s Purple Mountain Observatory in January ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

Asteroid 2023 DW is predicted to have a significant chance of colliding with Earth on February 14, 2046. With a diameter of 166ft (50m), it's comparable in size to the asteroid that caused the ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

It won't be there forever, but Earth will have a second moon when a small asteroid begins to orbit the planet later this ...

Matthew Dominick continues to wow us with impressive astrophotography from aboard the International Space Station.

2023 DW: The Valentine’s Day Asteroid Asteroid 2023 DW is another potential danger, predicted to possibly collide with Earth on February 14, 2046. With a diameter of 166ft, it's similar in size ...

Due to its size and risk to Earth, the asteroid has been the attention of intense scientific study. In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft managed to return a sample of the space rock to Earth.

T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...

A small asteroid slammed into Earth's atmosphere over Luzon Island in the Philippines Wednesday night, lighting up the dark ...