Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

Learn about NASA's strategies for preventing potential asteroid collisions with Earth.

No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...

Four large “potentially hazardous” asteroids – one the size of a skyscraper – are expected to pass by Earth on Thursday, ...

But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 TY21, measuring approximately 40 feet wide, will pass Earth safely today at a distance ...

Four asteroids - 2002 NV16, 2015 HM1, 2024 TP17, and 2024 TR6 - will be skimming past Earth today, but scientists say there's ...

A city-sized asteroid is approaching Earth this October, set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is closely monitoring an intriguing celestial event as a 580-foot asteroid approaches Earth on 24 October 2024.