The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

In a bizarre misinterpretation by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, the discovery of a new asteroid orbiting near Earth was later identified as Musk’s car ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably ... what the possible impacts would be should it strike Earth. If the asteroid is on the smaller end, ESA said any potential ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Astronomers have discovered four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth, using ...

A system of telescopes monitors near-Earth objects and sends the data to NASA ... It sent a rocket to strike an asteroid named Dimorphos, orbiting a much larger asteroid named Didymos, a target at a ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.