The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

One of the most perfectly fun ‘90s sci-fi action blockbusters is now available to stream on Disney+ for viewers.

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.