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.

Asteroid 2023 RR5 is due to pass halfway between the Earth and the moon on September 13 ... over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a chance of ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...

An asteroid large enough to destroy a city will pass between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend. Nasa said it was rare ...

The average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 miles. Here's what will ... time. No asteroid is awarded a name until it has been observed long enough for its orbit to be ...

A house-sized asteroid is set to soar by Earth Wednesday, with four other space rocks slated to follow in the coming days, according to NASA’s Asteroid ... between Earth and the moon is about ...

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