The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

For weeks, Elena Adams has been leading her team at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, through ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

An airplane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth on 21 August. Scientists worldwide are now keeping a close watch. How close will asteroid 2025 OB3 come? NASA confirmed the asteroid’s upcoming ...

The spacecraft was 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from our planet when the image was snapped. The Earth and Moon ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source familiar ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

NASA has confirmed asteroid 1997 QK1 will make its closest approach on 20 August. The rock measures about 990 feet wide and is travelling at 21,994 miles per hour.

The photographs were taken during scheduled checkouts of the spacecraft’s science instruments, crucial for calibrating its ...

A newly published paper, led by IPAC scientist Joe Masiero, provides evidence that two kinds of asteroids likely formed in ...