The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a speed of some 11,453 miles per hour, according to the space ...

DNA from a distance ...

Asteroid 2026 FM3 was discovered only days before making a close pass by Earth. Learn how close it got, whether it posed any ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the ...

AI-generated image of the asteroid impact. Cracking a cold case is always tricky. But figuring out one from 43 million years ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft has completed a major deep-space maneuver, setting it on course for the asteroid system targeted by ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...