Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

A quarter-mile-wide asteroid named for an ancient Egyptian god of chaos is on course to swing past Earth closer than the ring ...

The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, has been dubbed the "most dangerous in ...

NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asteroid 2026 JH2 and Earth as seen on NASA's NEO Earth Close Approaches database, as of Monday, May 18, 2026. (Image credit: NASA ...

The risk of a newly discovered asteroid hitting the earth in 2019 is virtually certain to disappear after more observations, say astronomers. An orbit calculated from observations in the two weeks ...

A tiny asteroid measuring up to 5 feet across was detected hours before safely burning up over northwestern Australia. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

On August 28, 2025, astronomers aimed NASA’s radar system at a region of space where a near-Earth asteroid was expected to appear. Instead, the object failed to show up, leaving researchers puzzled.

A tiny asteroid named CERNQ52 entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean after being detected only hours earlier.

Is our planetary defense lousy? The imminent Earth Impactor CERNQ52 crashed near Australia yesterday, and NASA explained why ...