Asteroid 2024 YR4 captured a lot of headlines shortly after its discovery because it had a slim chance of hitting Earth. The object is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet wide, large enough ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 million kilometres, it's a close call in cosmic terms ...

“Every asteroid has a different story to tell, and these stories weave together to paint the history of our solar system,” Tom Statler, Lucy mission program scientist, said in a press release ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following ...

The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, jumped from 1.7% in late February to 3.8% based on data collected using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.

2025 DU2 is not the only asteroid in our vicinity today. A bus-sized rock dubbed 2025 EW1, traveling at a speed of 26,306 miles per hour, will be passing by at a distance of around 509,000 miles ...

Asteroid 2025 DU2, measuring 160 feet wide and travelling at 62,650 km/h, will pass Earth on March 6 at a safe distance of 542,000 km.

An asteroid nearly the size of a 16-story building is hurtling toward Earth at a staggering speed of 62,650 km/h. Named 2025 DU2, this 160-foot-wide space rock belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids ...

Asteroid 2025 DU2, measuring 160 feet wide and travelling at 62,650 km/h, will pass Earth on March 6 at a safe distance of 542,000 km.

The asteroid still has a 1.7% chance of crashing into the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.