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.

The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a NASA capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to ...

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

The space rock was too small to pose any danger. A newly discovered space rock about 6.5 feet wide (2 meters) zipped past Earth today at a distance five times closer than GPS satellites orbit.

An asteroid that was discovered very recently zoomed past Earth at a distance that is 100 times closer than the moon or five ...

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

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.

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

Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½-pound sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid ...

If you love knowing what's "out there," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maintains an asteroid watch dashboard that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from ...