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

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

This big asteroid was discovered shortly before it was expected to hurtle past Earth. Any time you see a headline about ...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a skyscraper ... or at least, it's something as big as those things. Several large asteroids are set to pass by Earth this week, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has less than a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Its impact probability will continue to be refined as more data is collected. NASA said that the possibility of the ...

The giant asteroid Apophis will make a historically close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. Scientists have ruled out any risk of Apophis hitting Earth for at least the next century. The 2029 flyby ...

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

There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...