The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

A top astronomer responsible for defending the Earth against asteroids has revealed what keeps her up at night — thousands of ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This is based on its calculated size, around 226 kilometres wide, and its ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.