The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

An asteroid will zoom past Earth this week at such close range that standard telescopes may be able to spot it in the night sky, experts say. The space rock, dubbed 2023 DZ2 by NASA, ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%.

Luckily for Earth, the asteroid, named 2022 EB5, was around 6½-feet-long, a size "too small to pose a hazard to Earth," NASA said in a statement. "Scout" determined the asteroid would enter Earth ...