XD, which was discovered by the Spacewatch group at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona in 1994, will come as close as 19.2 ...

Three of the asteroids are due to fly by our home planet at distances of around 4 million miles, while one will approach ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is hurtling toward Earth and you can watch its near ...

A skyscraper-sized asteroid dubbed "potentially hazardous" will safely zoom by Earth this month, and you can watch as it ...

Named after the Greek goddess of the soul, Psyche was discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis in 1852. The ...

A newly discovered asteroid has been detected and is said to be a quasi-moon, or fake moon, of Earth. The fake moon is ...

HOUSTON—NASA is progressing toward an October launch of Psyche, an approximately $1 billion science mission to orbit a ...

NASA said an asteroid the size of an airliner will pass close ... to enter the Earth’s neighborhood.” 2023 JD2 is somewhat similar to 2023 DZ2, an asteroid estimated to be between 140 feet ...

But the moon's orbit and phases can seem mysterious ... is believed to have formed as a result of a collision between Earth and a smaller Mars-sized planet, based on analysis of lunar samples ...

2023 FW13 is a quasi-moon - a subcategory of near-Earth asteroids that orbit the sun ... lunar rocks from NASA's Apollo missions. Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and ...

Fortunately, larger asteroid impacts are rare, with the estimated time between ... orbit becomes necessarily uncertain over time, we know that the asteroid cannot reach the Earth." Based on the ...

It also provides a potential launch window between 2020 and 2050, farther than most comparable databases. Some additional features include the ability to calculate a parking orbit and set delta-v ...