The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This is based on its calculated size, around 226 kilometres wide, and its ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. Oct. 20, 2013 — -- Is the world ending in 2032? Not quite. Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid named ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.