A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

NASA reports asteroid 2025 KX8 will approach Earth on June 4, 2025. The asteroid is about 120 feet in diameter. It will pass ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

A study reveals why there are at least three asteroids which pose a potential threat to Earth and why current observation ...

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

A huge asteroid, 2025 JR, has caught the world’s notice because it is on a course for a close approach to Earth.

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California. It's last trip near ...

Asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8 is a 950 feet ... the event is classified as infrequent by our Close Approach Index, due to the significant size of the object." ...