The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to the space agency.

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

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

WASHINGTON — Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter ...

The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak in activity for 2 nights this week, but will a nearly full moon spoil the show? How to watch “shooting stars” ...

Is the Moon concealing the icy core of an ancient asteroid within its interior? Under the Moon’s greatest intact impact ...

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge ...

Researchers have analyzed the McDonough meteorite, which crashed through a man's home in June, and determined that it is older than our planet.

Discover the 4.56-billion-year-old McDonough Meteorite, a rare stony meteorite that shook Georgia with a sonic boom, now ...

Scientists are on high alert as asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon, could potentially cause significant damage to Earth's satellites and surface.

A meteorite that crashed into a Georgia home in June is older than the Earth itself, according to scientists who are studying the space rock. Onlookers in the Southeast were stunned when a fireball ...

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.