NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

A new discovery reveals the immense power of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving behind 'mega ripples' on the ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

If you have a good pair of binoculars, look closely at a full moon some summer night. You will see that it is pockmarked with craters. This is because it ...

Nasa noted that asteroids frequently pass just outside Earth's atmosphere, with a car-sized asteroid entering it about once a year, often creating an impressive fireball. However, these asteroids ...

Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist ... maintains an official catalog of near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets. It reports, names and numbers new discoveries.

If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in ...

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and ...

Earth will witness three asteroids making close approaches on February 25, highlighting the need for continuous space monitoring. Though none pose a threat, their proximity keeps astronomers alert ...