Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
The ATLAS survey, a four-telescope system tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, first observed the asteroid in images ...
After extensive tracking and refined calculations, astronomers have claimed that the 1,100 feet wide asteroid, 99942 Apophis, ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent asteroid target Bennu.
Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...
ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.
Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly the length of the Golden G ...