A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

NASA is closely tracking asteroid Apophis, a massive Near-Earth Object that could cause widespread destruction if it collides ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

NASA originally issued a warning in 2021 of the asteroid, as RV-50 was one of five asteroids being monitored that were ...

A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated last month. The asteroid was detected only two hours ...

The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for the ...

Named 2024 RV50, this asteroid measures about 710 feet across. It will safely fly by at a distance of 4.6 million miles, with no immediate danger to our planet, NASA confirms. Asteroids ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will come close to Earth, potentially triggering tremors and landslides on its surface.

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.