RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.

NEW YORK -- An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals.

NASA scientists are predicting a chance that asteroid Bennu will strike Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area ...

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After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...

An asteroid that was discovered very recently zoomed past Earth at a distance that is 100 times closer than the moon or five ...

NASA has set a schedule for coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to earth. The Origins, Spectral ...

O N SEPTEMBER 24 TH, if all goes according to plan, scientists will hit Earth with part of an asteroid. That is less alarming than it might sound, for the chunk of rock in question weighs at most a ...

Five will be approaching "close" to Earth over the next five days. Close is relative when it comes to space. The dashboard ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...

The space rock was too small to pose any danger. A newly discovered space rock about 6.5 feet wide (2 meters) zipped past Earth today at a distance five times closer than GPS satellites orbit.