Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

As asteroid the size of a house will pass within just 57,000 miles (92,000 kilometers) of Earth today. That’s less than a quarter of the average distance between our planet and the Moon. Don’t worry, ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history." ...

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.