As people prepare for Christmas Eve celebrations, the skies are preparing for their own dramatic spectacle. Tonight, a ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core dril ...

NASA has been tracking a giant asteroid, about the size of a stadium, that is set to pass very close to Earth this week.

Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...

Due to launch in April 2028, the spacecraft will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, a couple of months before its passing of Earth. It will then accompany the asteroid during its close flyby.

The asteroid, named 2006 WB, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to likely be about 310 feet across, though according to JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the ...

asteroid 2024 XN1 should pass by harmlessly at a distance of 4.48 million miles (7.21 million km) from Earth.# Although this will be a near miss by astronomical standards, experts say there is no ...

The impact prediction was made by the Scout system at NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). At 11:14am EST, a very small (#asteroid will impact Earth's atmosphere and create a ...

The near-Earth asteroid, officially called 2024 PT5, was first spotted in early August by the NASA-funded Sutherland, South Africa, telescope of the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid Terrestrial ...