This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

NASA has revealed the existence of a previously unnoticed asteroid, named 2026 JK4, which will come closer to Earth than the ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid named Apophis will fly unusually close to Earth on April 13, 2029, but NASA says there is no ...

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...

A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to ...

A Brazilian cosmologist studying near-Earth asteroids wasn't looking for a shortcut to Mars — but he found one anyway.

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

"NASA's planetary defense budget is less than one percent of the total space agency. That's not enough to ever do anything." ...

The space rock is expected to make its closest approach at around 848,000 miles from the Earth, according to NASA.