Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

When a massive asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered a chain of disasters—firestorms, tsunamis, and ...

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The photographs were taken during scheduled checkouts of the spacecraft’s science instruments, crucial for calibrating its ...

Earth is directly hit by an asteroid similar in size to 2024YR4 once every few thousand years. But it is most likely the space rock will miss Earth by a few thousand miles.

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5%, according to new calculations from NASA.

In February 2025, the risk of the asteroid hitting the Earth briefly climbed to 3.1% or one in 32. Luckily, humanity managed to avoid mass panic and the risk has since reduced to a more reassuring ...

It is one of the biggest asteroids in the Earth’s vicinity, and measures about 4.4 kilometres wide – or about the size of 30 Egyptian pyramids stuck together.