When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller celestial objects. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued an alert for the three asteroids ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city hit Earth. The impact of this asteroid brought about a global ...

The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.

The key factors include the asteroid's size—usually larger than 140 meters, and its orbit, which brings it within 7.5 million kilometers of Earth’s orbit. The term "potentially hazardous ...

and one of the asteroids passing Earth Thursday exceeds that size threshold. The asteroid, named 2002 NV16 after the year it was discovered, measures about 177 meters or 580 feet across — around ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

"TIRI will image the Dimorphos asteroid in the mid-infrared spectral region to chart the temperature on the asteroid ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus ... In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept.

Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping out humanity is quite low, but there are thousands of smaller space rocks lurking around Earth’s orbit capable of destroying entire cities ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...