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.

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

A mission seven years in the making will be fulfilled on Sunday when a sample of an asteroid will land on Earth.

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

Three asteroids have passed closer to Earth than the moon, in the last 30 days. Five asteroids will fly past Earth beginning Wednesday, but aren't expected to threaten the planet, NASA said.

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

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which aims to retrieve an asteroid sample and bring it back to Earth, is set to conclude this Sunday as the spacecraft desc ...

There are few cosmological concepts which have gripped the public — and Hollywood — more tightly than the idea of an incoming asteroid. Huge chunks of rock headed for Earth with the potential ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...