Apophis will make an exceptionally close but safe pass by Earth on April 13, 2029. Its path will dip inside the altitude of many geosynchronous satellites, creating a comparison that sounds alarming ...

Bennu is currently hurtling through space on an orbit that crosses Earth’s own path, earning it a spot on NASA’s list of potentially hazardous asteroids. Yet if this mountain of space rock ever headed ...

Asteroid 465824 (2010 FR) is expected to come into contact with Earth's orbit on September 6th, and is predicted to be twice as big as the ancient Egyptian landmark at Giza ...

An asteroid recently made the second closest pass to Earth ever observed on October 1st. And astronomers only found it after it had already completed its closest approach. That offers another lesson ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...

Thirty years ago, on 16 July 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the first of many pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter with incredible force. The event sparked intense interest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An unusually large near-Earth asteroid, (152637) 1997 NC1, ...

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn’t correspond to any of ...