Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

NASA confirmed that a bus-sized asteroid passed Earth on 22 December 2025 in a routine flyby that had been tracked well in ...

Asteroid 2025 TF's closest approach was about ~186 miles (300 km) from Earth. It is estimated to be about 2 meters (6.5 feet) ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...

Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and HelloGiggles. Getty The possibility of a ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth. Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth. This ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTLA) – A recently released animation shows ...