To put it in perspective, asteroid 2020 XR is about 1,200 feet in diameter, large enough to wipe out a small city. It’s designated as a “near Earth object,” or NEO, based on its size and how ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football stadium will zoom past our planet in the early hours tomorrow morning (Dec. 4) — and you can watch it live. The gigantic space rock ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Astronomers with the Slooh observatory will be taking a close look at the asteroid during a live stream beginning tonight at 7 pm EDT. You can view the stream in the video player above.

An asteroid up to 100 feet in diameter passed closely by Earth early on Wednesday morning. The space rock named 2020 GH2 came closer to the Earth than the distance between the Earth and the Moon ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4 ... 174 to 220 feet (53 to 67 meters), Live Science previously reported. 2024 YR4 is one of the largest objects in recent ...

NASA is monitoring a car-sized asteroid that's expected to zip past Earth tomorrow morning at around 28,655 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 FM18," estimated to be about 15 feet ...

Asteroid 2020 OO1, initially detected near Earth by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakala, is projected to make a close approach Monday. — University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy photo ...

UPDATE: Oct. 20, 2020, 6:41 p.m. EDT: The story below has been updated to reflect that NASA successfully touched the surface of Bennu to collect samples. Asteroid Bennu has had its close-up.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.