NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently ... some into another orbit around the Sun, towards the inner Solar System. Once an asteroid has been ejected from its usual path and is potentially ...

NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2023 KU, a 370-foot-wide space rock traveling at over 64,000 km/h. Expected to safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance of 1 million km ...

But there's a slight chance it could hit the moon then. The asteroid swings our way every four years. NASA and the European Space Agency released the photos — showing the asteroid as a fuzzy dot ...

Last week, NASA scientists revealed that the infamous ... that this meant it "most likely" originated from the solar system's main asteroid belt. The asteroid was likely pushed into its current ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

3, 2025 — A solar wind event from ... source regions in the asteroid ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032, but NASA has now reduced this chance to 0.004%. However, the chances of the asteroid hitting the moon have doubled, from 1.7 ...