The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

NASA confirmed the asteroid’s course towards Earth. It measures about 87 feet wide and travels quickly. The asteroid will ...

Space is an active place. Asteroid 2025 OT7 will fly by Earth in August 2025. It is about 170 feet wide. It will travel at ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

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 ...

NASA confirmed asteroid 2025 OT4 is now approaching Earth. The space rock measures around 130 feet in diameter. It will fly ...

The meteorite is roughly 4.56 billion years old, and experts believe it’s a chip off an asteroid from the belt between Mars ...