The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

If Earth is going to be blown to bits by an asteroid, it'd be nice to have some advance warning – to either do something ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

The massive rock is believed to be ten storeys high and will skim past the planet at 14,743 miles per hour in the early hours ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, a space rock the size of about a 10-story building, is fast approaching planet Earth with a velocity of 14 ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

In September 2022, the Nasa Dart mission hit the small asteroid moon Dimorphos and changed its trajectory, as the first test of “kinetic impactor” technology designed to deflect asteroids.