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The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 ME92 is on course. The rock is about 95 feet wide and is travelling fast.
Sky watchers may have reason to look up this week. NASA has confirmed that two asteroids will fly past Earth on August 3. The ...
Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...
On July 30, 2025,asteroid 2025 OL1—measuring roughly the size of a small aircraft—will pass Earth at a distance of 1.29 ...
Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the Moon. KTLA speaks with Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer ...
After a scientist claimed a 'hostile alien threat' could attack Earth within months NASA has weighed in on the situation.
NASA’s DART mission aims to change the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it—testing whether we could one day ...
On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.
Scientists created this mosaic of asteroid Bennu using imagery collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The asteroid spans about 1,600 feet (500 meters) across.
A NASA spacecraft nudged a small, harmless asteroid aside in deep space, the agency announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., shifting the asteroid's orbit in a test mission to save the Earth.
The asteroid at the heart of the mission—a small one, about 525 feet (160 meters) across—doesn’t pose a hazard to Earth. None of the known asteroids near Earth do—or at least they won’t ...