A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance of more than one million km!" SEE ALSO: We could nuke an incoming asteroid. Scientists just proved it.

Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth (main) and a bus (inset). Asteroid (2024 UQ1), which is roughly bus-sized, is due to pass closer to the Earth than the moon. Stock images of an asteroid ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera snapped this view of Earth and the moon. The clearest of the three images ESA released on Oct. 14 comes from Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera, which is used for ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.