A huge asteroid, 2025 MA90 is hurtling through space at around 20,000mph and is set to pass by Earth later today, reaching as ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency.NASA estimates ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named ...

A massive asteroid named 2005 YY128 will fly by Earth at a safe distance on Feb. 15, Paul Chodas, the director for the Center of Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

The city-destroying asteroid could collide with the planet in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 2.6 percent, or about a 1-in-38 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, upgraded from 1-in-67 when it ...

It won’t be the largest asteroid ever to sweep past Earth. That honor belongs to the asteroid 3122 Florence (1981 ET3), which flew by and missed colliding with Earth on September 1, 2017.

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet. As they receive more ...

At a news conference on Wednesday, NASA scientists said there was a 1-in-1,750 chance that an asteroid named Bennu, which is a bit wider than the Empire State Building is tall, could collide with ...

That’s the moment at which NASA’s DART spacecraft (short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will punch the moonlet in the nose—deliberately colliding with it at a speed of about 28,200 k ...