NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA has issued an alert for a 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow. Should you be concerned? Let's dive in and ...

Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Security camera footage posted on the social media platform Sina Weibo captured the scene of two family members reacting to ...

Earlier this month, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid close to Earth. Turns out, it was ...

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A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...

Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

More recently, uber-rich space tourists earned the distinction by breaching Earth's atmosphere ... as a sort of test sequence before it visits seven Trojan asteroids. The asteroid, called DJ for short ...

An asteroid bigger than Manhattan is heading towards the Earth and is large enough to be seen without the naked eye. The space rock - named (887) Alinda - has an estimated diameter of 4.2km ...