ASTEROID

The Florence asteroid will be the largest to ever come this close to Earth.

Not everything in space is named for one of the ancient Greek or Roman gods. Some objects like asteroids and craters are the namesakes of modern famous people.

A newly discovered family of asteroids is showing scientists what the solar system looked like when it was young, and could tell us how the planets formed.

An asteroid is going to come close to Earth and NASA scientists will use it as a drill, testing whether they can prevent a real-life Armageddon.

NASA's DART project is researching ways to prevent an asteroid from potentially hitting Earth in the future.

Just because an asteroid passes by Earth from a safe distance one year doesn’t mean it will always happen that way.

Dutch scientists say a meteorite that crashed near Amsterdam this year is about as old as the Earth, so it can tell us how our solar system and our planet formed.

Planet 10? Pluto had its planetary rank ripped away from it, but there could be two more planets out there waiting to take its place.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons said a dangerous asteroid could hit Earth at any moment and destroy a city.

They make up more than a third of all meteorites that strike Earth and were thought to be parts of 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.

That's in addition to another 96 newly discovered space rocks and an unexplained increase in comet activity.

June 9 is celebrated as the National Donald Duck Day across the U.S. to commemorate the birthday of the cartoon character.

These asteroids are fragile, but the possibility exists that they may penetrate the atmosphere and seriously collide with earth. The danger of a crash with an asteroid grows every few years when the Earth encounters this new branch.

Events on Earth like tornadoes and earthquakes are nothing compared to the dangers of our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.

A new telescope is trained on the moon to capture meteors crashing as part of an effort to understand asteroids and other space rocks that could strike Earth.

Called Psyche, the mission to study a unique asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt was originally scheduled for a 2023 launch.

Tiny aliens on a TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet would have an easy time traveling to one of the neighboring planets in its solar system because they are so close together.

During the early years of the solar system, Mars got a little break from constant bombardment by space objects before the asteroids started up again.

Scientists matched up stone carvings of a comet strike with ancient star formations to date and link the artwork to a devastating climate change that influenced human civilization.

If you’re looking at the night sky for the large asteroid that is passing close to Earth, look for something shaped like a peanut. Find out when you can view JO25 as it heads toward Earth.

According to NASA, the asteroid will fly by Earth Wednesday but we aren't in any danger because of it.