Named after an ancient Egyptian mythological demon, Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of almost three football fields (270m), will make its close approach to Earth this week.

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is the 10th anniversary of ...

(NEXSTAR) – There are thousands of asteroids and comets — known as Near-Earth objects, or NEOS — that orbit the Sun like any other planet in our solar system, but some can pose a risk to Earth.

ESA's Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration ...

Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

A new telescope, equipped with a 1.8 billion pixel camera, has discovered its first potentially dangerous asteroid. The rock is a lot smaller than any other asteroid we’ve detected before, and that’s ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was previously predicted to have a slim chance of impacting our ...

An unusual disc-shaped object from space landed last month on the barren sands of a U.S. military testing ground. Scorched from its fiery journey through the atmosphere, the capsule was lifted by ...

Let's see what the Martian moon Deimos is all about, shall we? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The journey into space is a long ...