A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using ...

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ‘JPL’ has been carefully monitoring five asteroids that are predicted to safely fly by Earth ...

A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-bus-sized space rock won't ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that two large asteroids, named 2020 GE and 2024 RO11, will safely pass by Earth on ...

Beginning on Sunday, the planet will capture an asteroid sailing nearby, drawing it in for one loop around Earth before ...

A 33-foot asteroid named 2024 PT5 is expected to briefly orbit the Earth between September 29 and November 25.

Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...

As these asteroids make their approach, NASA continues to monitor their trajectories, ensuring public safety while providing ...

Two asteroids which are as big as an airplane and a bus will pass by Earth today, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...