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

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

An asteroid detected just hours before impact with Earth burned up in a spectacular fireball over Russia last night. It’s the fourth asteroid to have been detected within just hours before ...

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 ...

NASA's radar gives off a ping, notifying scientists that a world-destroying asteroid has been detected and could hit Earth in ...

The moon orbits the Earth at an average distance of 238,900 miles. Stock image of an asteroid passing the Earth (main) and a school bus (inset). A bus-sized asteroid is due to pass twice as close ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency revealed in its latest newsletter. The asteroid, called 2024 UQ ...

More ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / ESA "Asteroid #C0WEPC5 (temporary designation) entered Earth's atmosphere at 16:15 UTC/17:15 CET, creating a fireball over Yakutia witnessed by people in the ...

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...

A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The studies show that these X-rays might ...

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 earth is under threat from an asteroid hurtling towards it. You have been sent to the asteroid to destroy it and save the Earth from invasion by a swarm of blood-thirsty phantoms ...