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

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

An asteroid recently discovered by NASA officials is being monitored after passing close to Earth on Monday.

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." When you ...

Measurements made with the help of the Deep Space Network (DSN) revealed that the close approach to Mars gave the spacecraft ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' has a keen way of keeping scientists on their toes, sending mixed signals for its composition, ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...