NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Here’s the good news: If a near-Earth object (NEO) big enough to wipe out humanity entirely is ever on a collision course with our planet, we’re likely to find out about it a good while before it ...

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

Joint planetary defense: ESA and JAXA will jointly launch Ramses to observe Apophis during its close approach to Earth in April 2029. Close and rare flyby: The asteroid will pass within 32,000 ...

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

A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able ...

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 ...

Close approach expected in 2029 at about 32,000 kilometers above Earth; 'something like this has not been recorded in human history' ...

Houston, we may have a problem! A rare, colossal-sized asteroid is on course to fly by Earth — and will come closer to our planet than any other rocks of its size in human history. The asteroid, named ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is monitoring an asteroid that will be at a "very rare" close ...