Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) of our planet on 21st of this month. The US space agency National Aeronautics and ...

YR4: everything to know about the potential "city killer" space rock that has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

Most likely that grain will not be on top of the Earth. It could be even farther than the Moon.” The asteroid was discovered after passing by Earth in December, and after April, it won’t be ...

Discovered in December 2024, 2024 YR4 quickly climbed to the top of NASA's Sentry Risk table, at one point having a one in 32 ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Today, February 18, 2025, a large asteroid, 2025 CA2, will pass by Earth at an incredible speed of 16,490 miles per hour. This massive space rock, about 67 feet across, is making headlines as it ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

The chances of an asteroid as large as the width of an NFL field striking ... determined that its trajectory would cause it to pass Earth at a safe distance of around 20,000 miles in 2029.

We now know that quite large objects - 40m across or more - pass between Earth and the Moon several times a year. That's the same size of asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 injuring people ...