The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds, and we have even found sugars and amino acids, the so-called 'building ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2019 JN2 will safely fly past Earth on November 30, 2024. Despite its proximity of 3.59 ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...

After almost two months of companionship, Earth has just lost its “mini-moon.” On Monday, the asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 was ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close ...

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...