NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s expected to zoom past our planet tonight at around 19,000 miles per hour, ...

A new study reveals that asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water. This challenges old beliefs about asteroids. Scientists analysed rock fragments from Ry ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

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 newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual ...

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 ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...