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 ...

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

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.

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 first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust ...

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 ...

It has been billed as NASA's 'asteroid autumn' and involves a trio of exciting missions that could answer some truly ...