World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is the 10th anniversary of ...
A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here's how you can watch the build-up to the flyby live online, courtesy of ...
A potentially hazardous asteroid spanning the length of the Washington Monument will make a safe, close approach to Earth on Sept. 18 and you can watch the flyby live online courtesy of the Virtual ...
What’s happened? Well, it hasn’t happened yet. But it’s about to. Asteroid 2025 QD8 is heading our way, but you’ll be pleased to know that it’s not on a collision course with our planet, according to ...
An asteroid the size of a commercial airplane will skim past our planet on Wednesday, September 3. Asteroid 2025 QD8 has no chance of hitting Earth, but its brief proximity will allow scientists (and ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...
A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...
On October 31, 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew by Earth. It arrived with excellent timing on Halloween, which made the already-creepy asteroid even creepier. During its closest ...
A large asteroid is expected to pass by Earth on the first full day of spring, March 21. At 1,300 to 2,230 feet wide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says 2001 FO32 is the largest asteroid predicted ...
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