Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered 11,000 new asteroids, including some that come close to Earth ...

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

A small near-earth asteroid is expected to make a close pass by Earth on 21 April 2026, according to data reportedly shared by NASA. The object has be.

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM, is attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers ...

NASA and other space agencies track thousands of near-Earth objects like this one. There are more than 41,000 known near-Earth asteroids that come relatively close to Earth’s orbit, and scientists are ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

Five asteroids, including one the size of a house, will approach Earth within the next two days. On Wednesday, March 25, the asteroids, the size of a car, an airplane, and two more the size of buses, ...