Asteroid Dimorphos: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image on December 19, 2022, four months after Dimorphos was ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

The asteroid, which has the temporary designation C0WEPC5, has now become the 4th "imminent impactor" discovered in 2024, ...

"the best you usually can do is, you take a bunch of pictures and hope one of them has the flash in it." Researchers suspect the vast majority of the 330-pound (150 kilograms) asteroid vaporized ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, a space rock the size of about a 10-story building, is fast approaching planet Earth with a velocity of 14 ...

A tiny asteroid struck Earth this morning, lighting up the dark sky over northern Siberia as it burned up. Measuring around 27 inches wide, the asteroid—temporarily designated C0WEPC5—was ...

This asteroid, named 2024 XA1, is only the 11th object we have ever managed to detect before it entered our planet's atmosphere.

NASA has announced that two asteroids - 2024 XF4 and 2024 XB16 - will make a close approach to Earth on December 15. Although ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring three asteroids set to pass Earth on December 11, 2024. Though moving at ...

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.

An asteroid approximately the size of two and a half chinchillas impacted the Earth above Siberia, Russia, on Tuesday, according to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Incoming!☄️A small ...

A "very small asteroid" entered Earth’s atmosphere just over Eastern Siberia on Tuesday morning. Astronomers only discovered the asteroid while observing the skies this morning before it ...