NEW YORK - An asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The space rock, known as ...

An asteroid the size of a house passed the Earth Wednesday, eventually reaching a distance closer to Earth than the moon, according to AccuWeather. The newly discovered Asteroid 2020 GH2 passed within ...

While everyone was looking over Earth’s collective shoulder toward the asteroid that was potentially going to whiz past us the day before Election Day, an entirely different one came at us via our ...

Scientists are tracking an object heading toward earth that could enter the planet’s orbit, and they are not entirely sure what it is. The object, named Asteroid 2020 SO, is believed to be man made ...

The comet, which will come within roughly 167 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet, will be tracked by telescopes around the world so astronomers can pinpoint its location and make ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Astronomers spotted an asteroid that made an extraordinarily close pass by Earth, a little above the altitude of the International Space Station (ISS). The small, giraffe-size asteroid called "2025 TF ...