The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

An asteroid will zoom past Earth this week at such close range that standard telescopes may be able to spot it in the night sky, experts say. The space rock, dubbed 2023 DZ2 by NASA, ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%.

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid, almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper, will pass Earth next week. Live Science reports that the asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...

While it has the highest odds of any asteroid to crash into Earth in nearly two decades, it remains very slim. NASA said the asteroid has a 2.3% chance of colliding at the end of 2032.