Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid ...

Asteroids headed toward earth are a popular plotline in movies, but those not well versed in the sciences might not know how to take news there’s one coming near us in real-life. With the asteroid ...

Well, that was a close one. Just a week after a potentially city-destroying asteroid was upgraded to a heart-palpitating 3 percent chance of colliding with the Earth, astronomers say that there is no ...

A house-sized asteroid, designated 2020 XY4, is set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow. Measuring approximately 44 feet in diameter, the asteroid will pass by at a blistering speed of 31,644 ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...

If you’re the type to worry, don’t click here — especially if the type of worrying you do is about things that sound really, really scary and that you have absolutely no control over. Clicking on that ...

Such is the world we live in these days that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration feels the need to issue an official statement on how we're all not going to die in an Earth-shattering ...