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

A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its size ...

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 ...

Well, that was a close one. Just a week after a potentially city-destroying asteroid was upgraded to a heart-palpitating 3 percent chance of colliding with the Earth, astronomers say that there is no ...

An asteroid the “size of a football stadium” is moving at a fast pace toward Earth and will be visible via livestream in the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 4, when it makes its closest ...

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...

Asteroids headed toward earth are a popular plotline in movies, but those not well versed in the sciences might not know how to take news there’s one coming near us in real-life. With the asteroid ...