China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An asteroid named 2025 ME92 is set to fly past Earth on July 31. It will maintain a safe distance of 3.19 million kilometers. NASA and ISRO are monito ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees. An ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...