A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist. NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size to come near Earth in recorded human history. Roughly the size of ...

University of Maryland students are racing to build a spacecraft to study an asteroid that will pass closer to Earth in 2029.

A newly discovered asteroid is on course to pass closer to Earth than many orbiting satellites next Monday. Here's what to ...

A new asteroid named 2026 JH2 is getting ready to fly very near Earth, safely, and some astronauts all over the world are now watching it closely. It will pass near the Earth on May 18, 2026, at a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

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