At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. - NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists have ...

For the next half-century, Earth will have a new celestial companion. A small asteroid, officially designated 2025 PN7, has been confirmed as a quasi-satellite—a rare type of near-Earth object that ...

A small asteroid roughly the size of a car is expected to make a close approach to Earth, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lists it in its public near-Earth object tracking tools. The object ...

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...