NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.

A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...

"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...

The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...