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, ...

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

"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 ...

An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the skies with a blinding flash, dramatic video shows.

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

A completely harmless and tiny asteroid was detected early on a collision course with Earth on Tuesday. Measuring about 27 inches wide, the asteroid was detected by astronomers at the Kitt Peak ...

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 ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

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 ...