Asteroid 2023 CX1 was observed in February 2023, seven hours before entering the atmosphere, and disintegrated at a very low latitude above the surface.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it hidden?

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...

Astronomers discover asteroid 2025 PN7, earth's latest quasi-satellite, revealing insights into planetary dynamics and ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, significantly larger than Delhi's Qutub Minar, will make a close approach to Earth on September 18, 2025.

At the recent 3rd International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), Chinese scientists proposed the concept of establishing a relatively complete detection and defense system for near-Earth ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...