The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...

Asteroid 2025 TP5, discovered just two days before its approach, will fly past Earth on October 15 at a dangerously close ...

Artificial intelligence is completely revolutionizing how we observe space. As telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce fireballs.

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

Asteroid 2025 TF flew over Antarctica on October 1 at a distance of 482 kilometres. None of the space agencies knew that it was coming and would make such a close flyby. What would have happened if ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...

A small asteroid just gave the Earth a close buzz. The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at 8:49 p.m. EDT ...

In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...

NASA’s ambitious $20 million mission to study the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid, Apophis, has been spared from the brink of ...