Asteroid 2009 WB105, part of the Apollo group, is approaching Earth at 68,027 km/h. Here's everything you need to know about ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Asteroid Day 2024 is coming up, commemorating the explosion of the largest observed asteroid as it struck the Earth above Tunguska in Siberia in 1908. The strike was a small rotation of the Earth ...

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to ... That’s more than a wide enough berth that we can all sleep well this week without worrying that 2023 DZ2 might level a ...

Right now, a golf cart-sized spacecraft is hurtling toward a tiny asteroid at about 14,000 miles ... will be streamed back to Earth in the weeks following the collision. "Even after DART is ...

NASA noted that the next time an asteroid this large is set to pass Earth isn’t until 2027. Of course, that doesn’t account for discoveries made just weeks before a fly-by. Zach Epstein has ...

An asteroid about the size of a giraffe was discovered ... The Inconvenient Truth Behind The HeadlinesBy Jamie Carter 2023 BU will next pass relatively close to Earth on December 6, 2036, but ...

The sixth annual celebration of Asteroid Day will be held on 30 June 2020. Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska asteroid impact. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...