The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

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A viral video has been circulating on social media to help visualize the staggering proportions of the asteroid, the dino-killer that struck Earth 66 million years ago. The video underlays ...

A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track every move but far enough that it poses no threat. The flyby is a reminder ...

In a tweet Sunday, NASA said an asteroid expected to pass by close to Earth on Nov. 2 , a day before the upcoming presidential election, "poses no threat" to the planet. According to NASA Asteroid ...

NEW YORK - An asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The space rock, known as ...

A large asteroid is expected to pass by Earth on the first full day of spring, March 21. At 1,300 to 2,230 feet wide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says 2001 FO32 is the largest asteroid predicted ...

LOS ANGELES - A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington is going to pass by Earth on Tuesday, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). JPL has ...

See live views of the asteroid via the Virtual Telescope Project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You can watch a big asteroid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.