It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

A massive space rock will go hurtling past Earth in a few years, zooming by 10 times faster than a bullet. This is the first time an asteroid of its size is coming close enough that people in ...

A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...

NASA estimates the asteroid's orbital path as bringing it just over 295,000 kilometers away from the Earth. This is far closer than normal, especially for such a big asteroid. For comparison ...

The risk assessment has fluctuated since the asteroid’s discovery late last year, when it was rated at a 1.2% probability of hitting our planet. The impact probability is expected to keep ...

Planet Earth and big asteroid in the space. A 290-foot asteroid is expected to pass by Earth Saturday, coming within 3.1 million miles of the planet—about 13 times further than the moon ...

The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not mass extinction. While the asteroid is dangerous enough to merit attention from scientists ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.

The third option is to "use nuclear devices to break up the asteroid or deflect it by detonating near it and pushing it" off course, he said. "That’s if you have a big asteroid, or not as many ...