An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the ...

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 ...

A small asteroid zoomed past Earth closer than most satellites last week — and astronomers didn't notice it until hours later. The surprise asteroid encounter occurred at 8:47 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, ...

Imaging suggests that a lot of the material coming off is in the form of dust grains. NASA indicated that two missions to ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — A European-led mission to the asteroid ...

On Oct. 1, 2025, the small asteroid known as 2025 TF whizzed past Earth at a distance of only 266 miles (428 kilometers) from our planet — roughly the same altitude as the International Space Station.

On October 1st, a small asteroid named C15KM95 passed by Earth at an altitude of just 300 kilometers, skimming over Antarctica in a flyby far closer than most near-Earth objects ever get. The event ...

The day marks the anniversary of a large meteor impact in Siberia on June 30, 1908. This is known as the Tunguska event. As the meteor entered the atmosphere, it exploded several miles above the ...