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

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A Californian start-up, TransAstra, is planning to develop an inflatable bag capable of catching asteroids and space junk.

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

At least 10 asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth over a three-day window between December 18 and December 20, ...

Astronomers just spotted 100 brand-new asteroids, and some of them are cruising uncomfortably close to Earth. Most space ...

NASA is also tracking a building-sized asteroid named “2025 YC3”, with a diameter of around 260 feet, and another bus-sized one known as “2025 XT7,” some 42 feet across. Both are expected to come with ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

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 ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19. Here's how you can track its progress both during ...

On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope when it’s around 170 million miles from our home planet ...

The Avengers have some superlatively powerful members and these ten members of the team could easily destroy the Earth.