Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably ... what the possible impacts would be should it strike Earth. If the asteroid is on the smaller end, ESA said any potential ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.