Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

A colossal asteroid, larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, is set to pass near Earth on June 5, ranking among the ...

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The asteroid, roughly 1 meter (3 feet) in size, was spotted by Jacqueline Fazekas of NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona only eight hours before impact. This discovery marks only the ninth ...

An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...

DG5 is classified within the Apollo group—asteroids characterized by orbits that cross Earth's trajectory around the Sun. It ...

Astronomers from the Yunnan University in China and other institutions have carried out photometric and spectroscopic ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

A house-sized asteroid flew past Earth while you were asleep. The space rock designated 2025 KF made its closest approach at ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

China has launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, embarking on a mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid near Mars. According ...