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

Earth is facing two major natural threats: one from deep space and one from beneath our feet. In this playlist, we look at ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

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

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

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

Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and dramatic close flyby.

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...