The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter ...

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

A small asteroid, approximately 70 cm in diameter, is set to enter Earth's atmosphere over northern Siberia tonight at around ...

Really, the only metals judged to be worthy of returning to Earth are the platinum-group metals (PGMs), which are known for ...

Hot on its heels is 2020 XR, which will make its closest approach on December 4 at 5:27 AM IST, passing just 2.4 million kilometers away. Slightly smaller than its predecessor, it spans between 290 ...

Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn’t survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using ...

This breakthrough is especially timely, as NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey identifies around 2,000 near-Earth asteroids annually.

Spanish scientists have developed a groundbreaking formula using the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint celestial ...

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

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Astronomers have spotted a 70-centimetre asteroid that is set to hit the atmosphere above northern Siberia at 4.15 pm GMT, ...