NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking the asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will approach Earth on Sunday, January 26.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

How on Earth was a Tesla Roadster electric sports car confused with an asteroid and what was it doing orbiting the sun in the ...

Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main ...

How close will asteroid 2024 YY5 come? Asteroid 2024 YY5 will pass Earth on 26 January 2025. It will maintain a distance of 2 ...

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

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

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

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, ...

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