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 ...
A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is the 10th anniversary of ...
You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 XV, a 290-foot building-sized object, set to safely pass Earth on December 18.
A telescope in Chile has captured footage of Asteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid large enough to wipe out an entire city. While the city-killer asteroid is currently speeding away from Earth, scientists ...
The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost doubled. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
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NASA officials have discovered a new asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. The near-Earth asteroid has been named 2024 YR4 and is estimated to be 40 to 90 meters wide.
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 ...
A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by ...