NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking the asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will approach Earth on Sunday, January 26.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

How close will asteroid 2024 YY5 come? Asteroid 2024 YY5 will pass Earth on 26 January 2025. It will maintain a distance of 2 ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its ...