Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

if you have a stone asteroid or a metal asteroid,” Fieber-Beyer said. Although NASA and other astronomers across the world are watching, Fieber-Beyer fears efforts and awareness of the dangers ...

In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of life— in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid named Bennu. What can this discovery reveal ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines as it became likelier and likelier that this thing would hit Earth. Scientists were watching it closely, as it’s impact probability ticked up ...