A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

NASA has issued an alert for asteroid 2024 YU1, a 110-ft space rock passing Earth on January 4 at 26,319 km/h.

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 ...

NASA reports that two asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, will approach Earth on January 3, 2025, providing a valuable ...

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

Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

After 2024 XN1’s festive flyby, the rock star won’t be making its Earth comeback tour until January 2031, when it will pass within 3.1 million miles. Meanwhile, the next truly large asteroid ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid, comparable in size to a 10-story building, will make a close approach to Earth on ...

That flyby on Dec. 1 was the 123rd known asteroid this year so far to pass Earth within one lunar distance, or 238,855 miles, the average distance between the Earth and the moon. NASA and the ...

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.