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

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.

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

A large asteroid, 1997 QK1, will safely pass Earth on August 20, 2025. NASA and ISRO will monitor this event. The asteroid is ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

NASA has confirmed asteroid 1997 QK1 will make its closest approach on 20 August. The rock measures about 990 feet wide and is travelling at 21,994 miles per hour.

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.

NASA only labels space rocks as hazardous if they are closer than 7.4 million kilometres and wider than 85 metres.

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

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