asteroid

Astronomers have got an awful lot better at spotting nearby asteroids—but there's still a long way to go.

The tiny space rocks passed a third of the distance to the moon.

Scientists are scrabbling to find the valuable rocks before they are degraded by sea water.

Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt.

Scientists hope it will unravel the secrets of the building blocks of life on Earth.

The plan details five goals the agency and government hope to accomplish over the next 10 years.

Luckily for us earthlings, the asteroid was only about 6 feet wide.

The asteroid was mysteriously "lost" to astronomers for a number of years.

The asteroid is up to five times the size of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013.

You might be able to catch a glimpse from your own backyard.

It will approach our planet at about four miles per second.

But don't worry, NASA says it has zero chance of colliding with Earth.

Scientists still don't know if it is an alien megastructure, an asteroid, or something else entirely.

Its coat could be the key to the strange asteroid's origins.

This giant asteroid is set to come a bit too close for comfort in mid-December.

Iridium-based compound combined with lasers found to kill cancer cells.

International asteroid warning network to be put to the test by 50ft-wide asteroid.

NASA is using the opportunity to test out its planetary defense systems.

Paul Chodas from NASA’s CNEOS says the exercise will be the same as if the asteroid were on course to hit Earth.

The asteroid will pass by Earth on October 12 at an estimated distance of 27,000 miles.

Florence is three miles wide and will pass at a distance of over 145 million miles.

A house-sized asteroid will pass by Earth at a distance of as little as 4,200 miles in October.

A newly discovered branch of the Taurids meteor stream increases the risk to Earth but is a “lottery,” scientists say.

Newly discovered crater in the Falklands may correspond with the Great Dying event 250 million years ago.