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

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

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.

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.

Scientists find ‘record-breaking’ asteroid nearly the size of eight football fields. Is it close to Earth? - The asteroid was discovered using data from the world’s largest camera ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...