A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left ...

Earth has long been deemed safe from a calamitous collision with a certain small asteroid in 2032. The moon, on the other hand, remained under threat for a little while longer. Finally, though, ...

NASA is contemplating an ambitious plan to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4, a city-block-sized rock with a 4% chance of impacting ...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 sailed came within 50,000 miles of Earth - about a quarter of the distance to the Moon - and was only spotted by experts just a few days ago ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

Tianwen-2 asteroid orbit insertion at quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa is set for June 7, days away, after amateur radio teams in ...

There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. For a brief time, the space rock called "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most ...

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...