A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with the kind of precision that has turned near misses into routine science ...

University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using state-of-the-art telescopes on Maunakea, including the ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029, offering scientists a rare opportunity to ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars's moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, in what aims to be the first round trip to the ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...

A tiny asteroid measuring up to 5 feet across was detected hours before safely burning up over northwestern Australia. The harmless fireball marked only the 13th time scientists detected an asteroid ...

An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could collide with Earth in a few years. Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and ...

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger. The space rock—1997 NC1—makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 ...

A UH telescope discovered the “city-killer” size asteroid in December. Recent calculations gave it a 3% probability of colliding with Earth in December 2032. The newest observations collected on ...