California: A massive asteroid, designated Asteroid 2006 WB, is approaching Earth, sparking both concern and excitement ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

A massive asteroid will experience earthquake-like tremors when it makes a historic close approach to Earth in 2029, ...

Scheduled to pass by Earth on April 13, 2029, Apophis will come within just 19,000 miles of our planet—closer than some ...

This distinction classifies it as a temporarily captured flyby, not a temporarily captured orbiter, which would fully circle ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

with vibrations persisting briefly post-flyby. These tremors could shake Apophis enough to dislodge surface materials and even eject small rocks into space, potentially transforming the asteroid's ...

Observers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to see the asteroid streak across the sky with the naked eye. NASA plans to ...

To find out, they conducted modeling of the 2029 99942 Apophis flyby of Earth. We don't really know what shape the asteroid has, but what data we have obtained suggest that it is bi-lobed, perhaps a ...

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging ...