Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

NASA confirms building-sized asteroid 2025 XV, 290 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on December 18 offering scientists a ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. Oct. 20, 2013 — -- Is the world ending in 2032? Not quite. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid named ...