With the picture being released, this is the description of the Asteroid provided by NASA: “Asteroid Ryugu, a near-Earth and potentially hazardous asteroid, is classified as a Cb-type asteroid ...

The event leveled trees and destroyed forests across 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers). And in 2013, a 20-meter-wide (66-foot-wide) asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow ... "ATLAS survey obtained images that included detections of a small object in a high-probability ...

Those recent images revealed ... And despite being deemed as "potentially hazardous," — NASA's term for any asteroid that floats within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million km) of Earth's orbit ...

The means to destroy the asteroid ... of Technology/Ryan/AFP via Getty Images Astronomers at first believed that the asteroid had a 1 in 83 chance of hitting Earth during its return to earth ...

Stock images of an asteroid passing ... objects present a threat to Earth. If a cosmic body [of 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter] crashed into Earth, it could destroy an entire city and cause ...

the head of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Objects Studies, said in a statement. MetaBallStudios / SWNS This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as ...