RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.

A half-pound of asteroid rock and dust will land by parachute in Utah – and will be exhaustively analyzed in Houston ...

(Gray News) - NASA says an asteroid called Bennu has a chance of impacting Earth late in the 22nd century. According to ...

After scooping material from an asteroid, NASA's OSIRIS-REx is preparing to drop the sample off in Utah before continuing on ...

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NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust ...

Shaped like a 144-mile-long potato, the peculiar asteroid Psyche is the largest metallic object in our solar system. And after NASA's Psyche exploratory spacecraft travels 2.2 billion miles to reach ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...

After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...

Three asteroids have passed closer to Earth than the moon, in the last 30 days. Five asteroids will fly past Earth beginning Wednesday, but aren't expected to threaten the planet, NASA said.

There are few cosmological concepts which have gripped the public — and Hollywood — more tightly than the idea of an incoming asteroid. Huge chunks of rock headed for Earth with the potential ...