A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 — known as a “city killer” due to its size — was first detected by researchers in December. Initial ...

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it ...

Then in 2013, a meteor the size of a semitrailer breached the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. Exploding with 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima blast, it blew out the windows on more than 7,000 ...

Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the asteroid came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of the International Space Station.

The public can now download StarFall meteor detection software designed at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory.

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

Palestinian human rights group Al Haq is pursuing its legal challenge against the UK government’s licensing of weapons to ...

World leaders have welcomed Hamas's positive response on Friday to US President Donald Trump's plan to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and end the near two-year war there. After the group issued a ...