As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Even though it's fast and close, the asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of 6.8 million kilometers (4.2 million miles).

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Not for too much longer, though: According to LiveScience, a telescope analysis by Dutch space researcher and satellite ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...