Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to intercept an asteroid that will swing uncomfortably close to Earth on a Friday the 13th in 2029. The Ramses mission will fly alongside the asteroid ...

The space around us is hardly empty – there’s millions of asteroids orbiting the Sun along with the Earth and other planets in our solar system. But one day every year we come together to acknowledge ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...

The Psyche probe captures images of Earth and the Moon from over 180 million miles away as it travels to intercept an ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Apex spacecraft captured the Earth during a flyby. The spacecraft will be studying the asteroid Apophis after ...

It's not unusual to have small asteroids pass closer to the Earth than the moon's distance of 240,000 miles. Matter of fact, the house-sized 2011 UX255 buzzed only 96,000 miles from our planet last ...