A bus-sized asteroid is due to zip past our planet today, skimming closer to us than our own moon. The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Center for ...

In the event of an imminent planet-killer (although unlikely due to the whole "100 years thing), NASA has already established ...

Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on Monday.

Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...

The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. The company announced the new mission alongside details of $40 ...

A recent study led by Ronald-Louis Ballouz from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory suggests that the asteroid 99942 Apophis may experience tremors—similar to earthquakes—due ...

A trail of debris from the asteroid struck by a Nasa spacecraft can be seen stretching thousands of kilometres A new image shows that an asteroid which was deliberately struck by Nasa's Dart probe ...

Asteroid 2023 DW has a better chance of hitting a date of 14 February than our planet, NASA says. A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on ...