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

This week, five asteroids will fly past Earth, close enough to be categorized as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). However, NASA predicts that none will pose any real risk to the planet for ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

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

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events highlight the dynamic sola ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 percent ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Armageddon is not imminent. Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton can stand down. There is no apocalyptic asteroid barreling toward a catastrophic collision with ...

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks passing the planet this week. The asteroid, known as "2025 DU25," will zip ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to 24,000 miles per hour. A space rock known as "2025 HP22," measuring ...

NASA has tracked over 27,000 near-Earth objects, some over 1 kilometer in size. Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the ...