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

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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

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

A small asteroid was spotted on a collision course with Earth. (X/@esa) A small asteroid illuminated the Siberian night sky early on December 4. The European Space Agency (ESA) reported that the ...

The asteroid has a diameter of 719 feet ... These rocks are studied with advanced telescopes while observatories take photos ...

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

A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.

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An asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over Russia's Yakutia, creating a bright flash. It disintegrated on impact, with no damage or injuries reported. An asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere in the ...

An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.