The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

NASA confirms asteroid 2023 HB4 will pass Earth at a safe distance of 4 million miles, offering scientists a chance to study ...

Of the five asteroids, one will be closer to Earth than the moon, according to NASA.

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away, and then accurately predicted its position almost seven years into the ...

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

A newly identified meteor shower reveals that intense heat is fragmenting a previously unknown asteroid as it passes too ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...