The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defence efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

A massive 190-foot asteroid, 2018 LE4, will make a close approach to Earth on June 7 at over 48,000 kilometres per hour.

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

On June 5, 2025, a massive asteroid known as 424482 (2008 DG5) is set to pass by Earth. The asteroid, which measures ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into Earth or else fling our ...

Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers. Though not considered a hazardous asteroid, its size and speed ...

On 13 April 2029 Apophis will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. But observing it up close, from just 31,000 km away, will be instruments and algorithms created at the Politecnico di Milano.

Asteroids pass Earth all the time ... 004 percent chance. No significant asteroid risks are heading to Earth for the next century. There’s still a slight chance that YR 2024 will impact the ...

A colossal asteroid, roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower, is set to pass Earth this weekend in what NASA calls a “close encounter”. The object, named 387746 (2003 MH4), spans 335 metres wide — ...