For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. On a ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

An astronomer has captured a photo of the huge asteroid 2022 RM4 that made a close but safe approach to Earth on Tuesday, November 1. The asteroid is estimated to be between 1,080 feet and 2,400 feet ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

The new asteroid 2022 AP7 has been identified by scientists. In this artist's impression supplied by the ESO (European Southern Observatory) on April 25, 2007, the planetary system around the red ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid, almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper, will pass Earth next week. Live Science reports that the asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of ...

An asteroid as wide as Dubai’s Burj Kalifa skyscraper is tall will pass surprisingly close to Earth just hours after Halloween. The newly discovered 2002 RM4 will come too close to Earth for comfort ...

A new artificial intelligence algorithm programmed to hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids has discovered its first space rock. The HelioLinc3D program, which found the asteroid, has ...