NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

In the past, the asteroid 2022 NX1 joined the Earth system as a mini-Moon in 1981 and came back in 2022. From news to politics, travel to sport, culture to climate – The Independent has a host ...

Asteroid 2025 KX8, about the size of a small jet, will make a close approach to Earth on June 4, 2025. While it poses no immediate threat, scientists are closely monitoring its trajectory.

This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...

Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet.

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

Science News: Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers. Though not considered ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029.The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its ...

Asteroid Kamoʻoalewa is a unique target for a sample return mission. The asteroid is a "quasi-satellite" of the Earth, meaning its orbit around the Sun closely matches that of our own planet.

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm because of the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.. The space ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.