On April 13, 2029, a chunk of rock roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower will thread the gap between Earth and the ring of communications satellites that orbit our planet. The asteroid, named 99942 ...

Two airplane-size asteroids, 2026 HJ3 and 2026 HR, are set to make a safe close approach to Earth on 27 April 2026, passing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small asteroid about the size of a car flew close to Earth overnight Tuesday, giving scientists another chance to study objects ...

A fast-moving 2026 FF6 will pass close to Earth, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still tracking it so closely?

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will establish an ad-hoc committee to investigate and make recommendations about a space-based telescope's capabilities regarding the ...

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) as a research area encompass the observational, theoretical, and modeling studies of asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them into proximity with Earth, typically with ...