Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

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The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will make a safe approach to Earth soon.

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

NASA warns about asteroid 2025 BK, a giant 160-ft space rock speeding towards Earth at 37,583 kilometres per hour.

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