Two plane-sized asteroids and another house-sized one will zip past the Earth today, and more are expected later in the week.

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM, is attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

A 13-year-old student from London, Ontario, has won one of the highest awards at the Canada-Wide Science Fair after creating ...

Asteroid 2026 HW2 which is about 370 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on 29 May. This asteroid is approaching towards Earth ...

Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

How big of an asteroid does it take to damage cities, states, countries, and the planet? On the fourth-annual World Asteroid ...

There is a nonzero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a celestial ...

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. benmoss ...