NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 QD8 will fly past Earth on 3 September at speeds of around 28,600 miles per hour, and could ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track, and potentially deflect asteroids and comets threatening Earth ...

Despite its hair-raising future proximity, 2025 QV5 is too small to be labeled “potentially hazardous” defined by NASA as ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life.

An asteroid the size of a commercial jet passed closer to Earth than the Moon on September 3, 2025, in a high-speed flyby ...

Space is dynamic. Asteroid 2025 QH16, about 43 feet wide, will approach Earth. It travels at over 18,500 miles per hour. On ...

Some asteroids—estimates hover around 15 percent—travel with a rocky companion in what’s known as a binary system, where two asteroids orbit each other.

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return missions — are both fragments of a single massive "parent".

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive cosmic hand stretching across 150 light-years of space.