A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

View post: Winter Storm Warning Map Tracks Powerful Weather Mass After 66.5 Inches of Snow Hits the U.S. Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

On hearing the words "city killer" and "asteroid" in the same sentence, you'd be forgiven for thinking something bad is about to happen. But not to fear. Although an asteroid with the potential to ...

Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.