Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.
An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.
A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.
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Ancient findings reveal dinosaurs faced a hidden crisis before the infamous asteroid hit
The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.
The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...
The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...
Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and dramatic close flyby.
On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.
A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...
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When The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit, This Life-Form Feasted On The Death
An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...
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Extinction: What were conditions like on Earth when the dinosaur-killing asteroid crashed into the planet?
About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures demonstrating indomitable power, while others thrived in different ways.
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