NASA has confirmed asteroid 2005 YU128, travelling at 25,318 km/h, will pass Earth tomorrow. Learn about its size, impact ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it closely. Falling under the Aten category, such asteroids have a semi-major ...

As well as Aten asteroids being hard to find because they’re always lost in the sun’s glare—such as the famous asteroid Apophis— asteroids can slightly change their course over time ...

Cruithne is a type of object called an Aten asteroid, which is a group of asteroids that live within the inner solar system between Earth and the sun. It has a weird path through space where it ...

Asteroids like Aten, orbiting close to the sun ... telescopes and continued monitoring to manage the remaining near-sun asteroid risks.