The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

A mystery object tearing towards Earth at break-neck speed has raised fears that aliens are on their way here.

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

Psyche’s twin cameras recorded long-exposure images of Earth and the Moon. From 180 million miles away, both appeared as faint dots.

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

The photographs were taken during scheduled checkouts of the spacecraft’s science instruments, crucial for calibrating its ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon.

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

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