Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events highlight the dynamic sola ...

The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids, rocky remnants from the solar system's violent birth that cross paths ...

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This new quasi-moon is an Arjuna asteroid — one of a cluster of more than 100 small bodies with orbits almost identical to Earth’s. These asteroids move around the Sun in almost the same orbit as ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s expected to zoom past our planet tonight at around 19,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).