These five locales allow for stable orbits due to the competing gravitational forces of Earth and the sun. This one lives at what is called the L4 point. The only other Trojan asteroid seen around ...

for the first Trojan asteroid encounter in 2027. During the gravity assist, the Lucy spacecraft, from Earth's perspective, will approach from the direction of the sun. This means that observers on ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit, there is a miniscule chance it could hit us when it returns in 2026. This big space rock is much larger than almost ...

Astronomers have spotted a large asteroid destined to whizz unusually close to Earth. First noticed just three weeks ago, asteroid 2023 DZ2—and already nicknamed “Dizzy”—will safely cruise ...

Asteroid (887) Alinda came closest to our planet on Wednesday, January 8, being the closest to Earth in decades and the last until 62 years from now (2087). Despite reaching its closest moment and ...

A “lost asteroid” that hasn’t been seen since it was first discovered in 2007 has some scientists worried about the potential of an Earth-bound collision this year, reports indicate.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

This asteroid is a quasi-satellite of Earth, meaning it orbits the Sun but stays close to ... NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter ...

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 ...

The moon orbits the Earth at an average distance of 238,900 miles. Stock image of an asteroid passing the Earth (main) and a school bus (inset). A bus-sized asteroid is due to pass twice as close ...