Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

Asteroid 2023 BU will flyby Earth on Jan. 26, 2023. The space rock's closest approach will be ~3,506 km (~2,178 mi) away. It is estimated to be about 3.8 - 8.5 meters in diameter (12 - 28 feet).

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...

According to the European Space Agency, the Flyeye-1 telescope recently completed its “first light” test at the Italian Space Agency’s Space Geodesy Center, located about 160 miles east of Naples.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...

Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Stay in Orbit by Victor Lundberg / courtesy of Epidemic Sound ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032 hit a record high. Experts expect the risk percentage to fluctuate before likely dropping to zero. Here’s why.

The latest calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements had suggested. Late on 19 February, telescopic observations of the ...

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