AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Santa Claus isn’t the only thing making a fly-by of Earth this week. NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. Dubbed 2024 XN1 ...

The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the New Year, has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said the asteroid - believed to have a diameter of 70 centimetres - was "on a collision course" with Earth and was discovered roughly 12 hours prior to its appearance.

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

Asteroids usually tell us about the vast, unpredictable stretches of space, but they seldom give us a chance to witness their theatrical entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. One such asteroid, C0WEPC5, ...

An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

KUNMING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- An observatory in southwest China's Yunnan Province has captured rare images of a falling near-Earth asteroid, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Friday.

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...