For the third time in a year or so, an asteroid is giving Earth’s orbit a swipe...

Word on the street: If you see no other meteor shower this year, make it this one...

Well, not intentionally, of course...

Not content with going to the depths of the ocean, Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron, whose famous declaration “I’m king of the world!” marked his ascension to the Oscar th...

The near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros, so named upon its 1898 discovery on the same night, August 13, by Gustav Witt in Berlin and Auguste Charlois at Nice, is the first asteroid to be ...

An asteroid the size of a bus cruised past Earth at a distance of about 36,000 miles on Friday January 25 with no incident...

Although it wasn't visible from the ground without a telescope, asteroid YU55 burst into public consciousness with its close approach to Earth on Tuesday November 8...