Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is soaring past the Earth today, and may be visible to the naked eye. Alida, described as being the 'size of a mountain', orbits the solar system ever 3.89 years.

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards ... and measures between 32.8 and 72.2 feet in diameter. In comparison, the average American school bus is about 35 to 40 feet long.

(NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday ... Wednesday alone, NASA shows four other asteroids — ranging in size from a bus to an airplane — will pass within ...

A rare asteroid the size of Salford is about to fly close to Earth. The space rock, named (887) Alinda, is so large that stargazers should be able to witness it using ordinary binoculars. With an ...

An enormous asteroid has just zoomed safely past Earth, but it isn't done with our planet yet. This weekend, the mountain-size space rock will peak in brightness in a rare once-in-a-decade event ...