Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.
Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.
Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...
When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.
Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...
In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...
Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...
The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Two house-sized asteroids are making close approaches to Earth this week, drawing attention from NASA's planetary defense ...
This week, NASA’s has been busy tracking a trio of sizable asteroids hurtling past Earth’s orbit, one traveling as close as ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...