BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study ...

Let's take a look back at the year in some of the editorial cartoons featured this year in The Columbus Dispatch.

As Christmas approaches, astronomers are tracking asteroid 2025 YP. This space visitor will fly by Earth on 25 December 2025. Experts assure there’s no cause for concern, and festivities remain ...

The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love. English continues to expand into ...

This massive space rock has a potential destructive force of 12 million tonnes of TNT. Huge space rock 2024 XN1, which is also dubbed as the 'Christmas Eve asteroid' and is the size of an ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids ...

New findings by scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shed light on this hybrid of comet and asteroid, revealing unprecedented insights into its surface chemistry and activity. The ...

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has shared updates for the 'next five asteroid approaches'. While NASA figures out how to bring a $10 quintillion asteroid back to Earth, several others are set to fly ...

NASA has issued a warning about a colossal Christmas Eve asteroid due to make a close encounter with Earth tonight. The celestial body, comparable in size to a ten-story building, is expected to ...