The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...

NASA has issued a warning about an asteroid, 2019 JN2, passing close to Earth today. The space rock, about the size of an ...