A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

The first asteroid, 2024 TB2, measures about 110 feet, roughly the size of a small airplane. It will safely pass Earth at a distance of approximately 731,000 miles on October 26, 2024. Despite being ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

Stock images of an asteroid passing Earth (main) and a bus (inset). Asteroid (2024 UQ1), which is roughly bus-sized, is due to pass closer to the Earth than the moon. Stock images of an asteroid ...

Astronomers managed to discover another asteroid just few hours before it struck Earth's atmosphere. According to reports, a space rock roughly three metres wide entered our planet's atmosphere over ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

Getty Images Following close behind will be the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2024 TR6, which will pass within 3.5 million miles of Earth just a few minutes later at 11:51 a.m. EST — a celestial two ...

A hypothetical “fifth force” could tug on asteroids, if it exists. But the asteroid Bennu shows no signs that its orbit has been tweaked by such a force. That sets a ceiling on how strong a ...