A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

Don’t worry, 2020 will not be the year a massive asteroid will hit the Earth. But astronomers will still have their eyes to the sky this weekend when asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4) will glide 3 million ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

NASA's OSIRIS-Apex spacecraft captured the Earth during a flyby. The spacecraft will be studying the asteroid Apophis after ...

Don't look now, but an asteroid is heading our way on Halloween. On the other hand, go ahead and look. As it misses Earth by about 300,000 miles (slightly farther away than the moon), the asteroid, ...

An asteroid the size of a commercial airplane will skim past our planet on Wednesday, September 3. Asteroid 2025 QD8 has no chance of hitting Earth, but its brief proximity will allow scientists (and ...