The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

NASA has issued a warning about an asteroid, 2019 JN2, passing close to Earth today. The space rock, about the size of an ...

NASA issues an asteroid alert for 2024 WQ2, a 130-ft asteroid racing past Earth at 62,388 km/h. No threat to Earth, but close ...

NASA has identified an asteroid rich in valuable metals like gold and platinum. Named 16 Psyche, has enough resources to make ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...