A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

In a bizarre misinterpretation by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, the discovery of a new asteroid orbiting near Earth was later identified as Musk’s car ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The two Lagrange points where they might exist, L4 and L5, are notoriously difficult to observe from Earth. “Any asteroid orbiting around these points will only be visible during a short time ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032, with scientists previously calculating impact probability at around 3%. Asteroid 2024 YR4's impact ...