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

Two of these asteroids — 2024 TP17 and 2024 TR6 ... orbits that bring them within 4.6 million miles from Earth’s orbit around the sun — are discovered every year, per the Catalina ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

ELON Musk’s web of satellites makes it harder to detect dangerous near-Earth asteroids, scientists have warned. The number of ...

When Apophis was discovered in 2004, initial calculations indicated that it could approach Earth with a risk of collision.

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AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

In 2P/Encke's case, it orbits every 3.3 years, the shortest orbit of any known periodic comet. Related: 'Planet killer' asteroids are hiding in the sun's glare. Can we stop them in time?

Instead, planets were loosely regarded as objects larger than asteroids that orbited the sun ... wide for an unknown ...

That means astronomers will have to get to work, hunting for more asteroids that share an orbit with the sixth planet from the sun. That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ...

Previously, scientists believed that most near-Earth asteroids came from beyond the orbit of Mars. However, the possibility that Kamo`oalewa is a fragment of the Moon. The challenge comes in ...

Trojan asteroids are a class of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrange Point in a planet’s orbit around the sun. According to NASA, a Lagrange Point is essentially a position in space where ...