Two asteroids, 2025 OB5 and 2025 QK3, as well as the smaller 2025 QB3, are all set to pass Earth on August 26.

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals.

For example, the chance of a >140 meter asteroid hitting Earth is more likely than an individual being struck by lightning in their lifetime and more likely than an individual being attacked by a ...

A meteorite that crashed through a Georgia home roof in June has been identified as billions of years old and older than the ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of ...