It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

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

NASA is closely tracking asteroid Apophis, a massive Near-Earth Object that could cause widespread destruction if it collides ...

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

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

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

The asteroid is almost double the size of other asteroids and it orbits the sun every 324 days ... the uncertainty in Apophis ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles ...

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

Over the next two months, Earth's orbit will encounter meteor showers likely to bring fireballs or "earth grazers" — which ...