NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is currently tracking two asteroids, 2022 OB5 and 2024 YB10, both set to pass Earth on ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Alinda will reach its peak brightness, with a magnitude of 9.4, on Sunday. During this time, the asteroid will be visible moving through the constellation Gemini.

During this pass the rock will come even ... predicts a one in 52,356 chance of an impact. On Christmas Day itself, an even larger asteroid named 2021 BA2 will make a remarkably close pass of ...

During this next close pass, NASA will use the Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna in California's Mojave Desert, which is part of the space agency's Deep Space Network, to track the asteroid ...

The inhabitants of Earth are about to witness a unique and unparalleled spectacle in the coming days, when an asteroid larger than all of Manhattan will be visible in several parts ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and a rendezvous with an asteroid.