Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

for their trajectories to see if their paths would cross somewhere between the binary pairs of Earth-Venus, Earth-Mars, or Mars-Venus. If so, then in theory, they could be used as shielding from ...

According to NASA’s JPL tracking, 2020 XR will cross through Earth’s orbit Wednesday and then head out toward Mars’ orbit. After crossing Mars’ path in February 2025, the asteroid will ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in October 2023. October 2023 is set to be ...