Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and ...

A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

A bus-sized asteroid named 2026 JA1 will safely pass Earth on May 13, 2026, at a distance of about 605,000 miles. NASA ...

A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid known as 2026 JH2 is set to make an unusually close flyby of Earth on May 18, ...

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

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history.

Sloths are the slowest mammals of all, but asteroid 2026 HX3 is anything but that – both in terms of being slow and in terms of being mammals.

An asteroid exploded over France two years ago in a rare single explosive event, raising concerns about future planetary defence from certain types of these rocky bodies. On 13 February 2023, a small ...

In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Getty Asteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid discovered in 2024, has a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032 Should the asteroid ...