World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids ...

NASA has confirmed the asteroid 2025 MV89 is en route. The space rock is about 120 feet across, roughly plane-sized. It is ...

Measuring approximately 120 feet in width, the asteroid will fly by at a velocity of 31,204 km/h, maintaining a safe distance ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

Asteroids safely fly by Earth all the time. Here’s why scientists are watching Apophis. A menacing asteroid named Apophis is projected to have a close encounter with Earth in 2029.

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEO) as asteroids or comets with orbits that bring them within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the sun, meaning they are close to Earth's orbit.

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid zoomed past Earth on Tuesday — and it's not the only one. In total, seven asteroids are expected to pass by our planet by the end of the week. The largest of ...