This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...

"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the chemical properties of its surface." When you purchase through links on our ...

A new study has found that early orbital data from an asteroid reveals a fast, round-trip route to Mars that cuts total mission time to as little as 153 days. That result turns a discarded early ...