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

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

Today, tourists can also visit the site of a more recent cosmic impact, Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, a nearly-mile-wide crater caused by the impact of a 165-foot-wide asteroid about 50,000 ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? Bryan Walsh is an editorial ... almost certainly wiped out by a nearly 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck the Earth with the destructive ...

Launched in 2021, Lucy will have close fly-bys of four Trojan asteroids – two of which are known to have small moons – in 2027 and 2028. NASA’s Lucy mission, named after the 3.2 million-year-old ...

Friday's jobs report continued the nonstop flow of information in recent weeks, some of which has clashed with other data, said Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...