A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have r ...

An asteroid the size of two football fields end-to-end is to have a relatively close encounter with Earth on Thursday, Sept.

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

NASA has confirmed asteroid 2025 RL2 is approaching. The space rock measures about 70 feet wide and is racing through space ...

NASA and IAU have named a feature on asteroid Donald Johanson after India’s Narmada Valley, honouring its fossil heritage.

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...