The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

Asteroid 6 Hebe is now at opposition in Aquarius. It is visible all night, best seen shortly after midnight.

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a building-sized object that initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...