An asteroid roughly the size of a house slipped past Earth on May 18, 2026, passing well inside the orbit of the Moon. The ...

An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t in any imminent danger, but the cosmic debris will still come close enough ...

China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-2, has been hunting down its target — a so-called quasi-moon — ever since it launched from Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visualization of near-Earth asteroids Image by NASASpace.com A recently spotted asteroid is set to pass close to Earth on May 18, ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

From a marathon milestone on Mars to a sky filled with satellite trails above Chile’s deserts, this week’s collection ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. China is about to begin one of the most unusual asteroid ...

Nearly 400 days and a billion kilometers after leaving Earth, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at its target: the ...