An airplane-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles. NASA's ...

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.

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

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

is suspected to be a “large chunk of rock ejected from the Moon’s surface after an asteroid impact long ago.” NASA says the asteroid “does not pose a hazard to Earth” but they plan to ...

Humanity issued its 11th asteroid impact warning on December 3, marking the fourth successful warning in 2024, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

making it a very intriguing asteroid impact simulation. The app, while it may seem a bit silly in and of itself to most people, is actually a very useful tool if you’re worried about the massive ...

When a massive asteroid struck the Chesapeake Bay on the U.S.'s East Coast about 36 million years ago, it created an enormous impact crater spanning tens of miles but caused surprisingly little ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...

According to NASA, 132 known asteroids have passed closer to Earth than the moon is since October 2023. Overall ... much farther away from impact than Tuesday's asteroid, 2020 XR is approximately ...