World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

NASA and SpaceX are teaming up for one of the boldest missions in space history - sending humans to an asteroid. From testing ...

NASA has cleared up previously unconfirmed reports of a massive asteroid supposedly hurtling closely towards Earth on Wednesday.. A massive asteroid named 2005 YY128 will fly by Earth at a safe ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to ...

Data from NASA shows the asteroid could hit Earth on that date, but it's likely to pass Earth by more than 1.1 million miles. "We've been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a very ...

NASA scientists have predicted there is a chance that a massive asteroid they have been tracking could smash into Earth in the year 2182, potentially devastating an area the size of Texas.

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...

Even an asteroid on the smaller end of that range could have a big impact, depending on where it hit the Earth, says Lindley Johnson, NASA's Planetary Defense Officer Emeritus.

A spacecraft that NASA launched last year succeeded in changing the space rock's orbit. It was a test of planetary defense in case Earthlings really need to move an incoming asteroid someday.