An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

A bus-sized asteroid is due to zip past our planet today, skimming closer to us than our own moon.The asteroid, named 2024 ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

NASA has issued a warning about an asteroid, 2019 JN2, passing close to Earth today. The space rock, about the size of an ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...