The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Supercluster, a website dedicated to telling humanity’s greatest outer space stories.David Rankin is the closest thing Earth ...

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.