The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...
Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.