Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

A big asteroid is coming close to Earth. Be excited, ... scientists can look for similarities that provide clues about how this important resource arrived on our planet billions of years ago.

New photos of the recently discovered asteroid 2024 MK, which zoomed past Earth in late June, reveal that the massive space ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Astronomers can’t even say right now if Asteroid 2024 Y4 will come anywhere near Earth. Some projections show it passing the planet in 2032 at a distance farther away than the moon.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

The other two space rocks—2015 HM1 and 2024 TP17—have already reached their closest point to our planet at 4:36 a.m. UTC and 8:20 a.m UTC, respectively. The first near-Earth asteroid which is ...

This artist’s concept depicts an asteroid drifting through space. Many such objects frequently pass Earth. To help prepare for the discovery of one with a chance of impacting our planet, NASA ...

Apophis is projected to pass within 20,000 miles of our planet’s surface on April 13 2029. The menacing asteroid will harmlessly pass by, astronomers say. Apophis measures nearly a quarter of a ...

A 290-foot asteroid is expected to pass by Earth Saturday, coming within 3.1 million miles of the planet—about 13 times further than the moon—according to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Our Planet On the Big Screen: New Museum Exhibition Explores Ever-Changing Earth from Space and on the Ground. The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger ...

An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big ...