In 2029, the world will witness a rare celestial event when the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter-wide asteroid. flies by Earth ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards the Earth at more than 22,600 miles per hour, according to ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

NASA confirms building-sized asteroid 2025 XV, 290 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on December 18 offering scientists a ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA. This brings us to the other new discovery, reported in Nature Geoscience, ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. Oct. 20, 2013 — -- Is the world ending in 2032? Not quite. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid named ...