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

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

Telescopes across the globe will track it so that astronomers can determine its exact location and make predictions about ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Catch the brightest meteor shower of 2025 as the Geminids peak this weekend over California, from San Diego to Yreka. Where ...

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

The Geminid meteor shower, considered one of the best of the year, is about to hit its 2025 peak in mid-December. Here's what ...

It's one of the best annual meteor shows on Earth: the Geminids Meteor Shower. Observed since the late 19th century, the ...

You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free ...

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

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

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...