China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Asteroid Requiem, the physics-based experimental arcade game from Wizards in Training, is now available on Steam.

NASA has identified a 210-foot, airplane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today, although scientists assure it will not ...