For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is the 10th anniversary of ...

There are things that are out of this world in the most hyperbolic fashion, and then there are things that are literally out of this world. The Asteroid watch is one of them: a timepiece unlike any ...

A 2,000-foot-long asteroid stormed past Earth this morning. The asteroid in question is 2013 NK4. It's almost twice as big as the doomsday asteroid Apophis, which is expected to pass close to the ...

A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here's how you can watch the build-up to the flyby live online, courtesy of ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost doubled. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper and stadium will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. NASA says it will happen around 9:41 a.m. EST. There's no chance of it ...

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock, which was ...

The Virtual Telescope Project will attempt to image the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it approaches Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

An asteroid the size of a football stadium capable of leveling an entire city hurtled by Earth on Friday at 41,000 miles per hour. Despite its destructive powers, astronomers say we never had anything ...