The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is carefully watching an asteroid called 2025 XM, a space rock about 84 feet (26 ...

Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no danger to the planet.

A 700-metre asteroid went undetected near Earth after hiding in the Sun’s glare, raising fresh questions about blind spots in ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

A meteor from the Southern Taurid meteor shower streaks towards the aurora borealis in Central New York State on Sept. 29, 2025. An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” ...

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Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.

On the first day of the year 1801, Italian astronomer Gioacchino Giuseppe Maria Ubaldo Nicolò Piazzi found a previously uncharted "tiny star" near the constellation of Taurus. The following night ...