According to NASA, an asteroid is labelled "potentially hazardous" based on a combination of factors: its size and how close ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

The space object, which was only recently discovered by scientists, will pass closest to Earth on Friday, December 19. Here's ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

NASA confirms building-sized asteroid 2025 XV, 290 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on December 18 offering scientists a ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. Oct. 20, 2013 — -- Is the world ending in 2032? Not quite. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid named ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.