NASA is tracking a 170-ft asteroid, 2024 TP 17, set to pass Earth on October 24, 2024. Check its speed, time of encounter, ...

Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew about 75,500 miles (121,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock is about 16 feet (8 m) wide. Credit: ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller celestial objects. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued an alert for the three asteroids ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly the length of the Golden Gate Bridge. This announcement highlights the ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, ...

The solar-powered spacecraft, which is the size of a small car, will take two years to reach its target, the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos between Earth and Mars, arriving in ...

Scientific consensus now says that these two factors are linked and they were both probably caused by an enormous asteroid crashing to Earth. With the projected size and impact velocity ...

Research on the Nadir crater shows that the asteroid which ended the dinosaur period 66 million years ago was not alone.

“Imagine the asteroid was hitting Glasgow and you’re in Edinburgh, around 50 km away. The fireball would be about 24 times the size of the Sun in the sky - enough to set trees and plants on ...

Graphics: What to know about asteroid 2024 PT5. This isn't the first nor last NEO to enter Earth's orbit. There are about half a billion NEOs that are greater than a meter in size that the Earth could ...