NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Billions of years ago, a migrating Jupiter tore through the young solar system, flinging a barrage of asteroids towards the ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

An asteroid will zoom past Earth this week at such close range that standard telescopes may be able to spot it in the night sky, experts say. The space rock, dubbed 2023 DZ2 by NASA, ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid, almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper, will pass Earth next week. Live Science reports that the asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%.