The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 percent ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

On 27 June, 2026 the Near Earth Asteroid designated as 1997 NC1 will approach within seven times the distance to the Moon.

An artist's illustration depicts a typical asteroid in our solar system. - ESA The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

Asteroid 2026 HW2 which is about 370 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on 29 May. This asteroid is approaching towards Earth ...

An asteroid that may be as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is tall will fly safely by Earth on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Bigger than 97% of asteroids, for such a large object to come ...

How big of an asteroid does it take to damage cities, states, countries, and the planet? On the fourth-annual World Asteroid Day (Saturday, June 30), we take a look at estimates from NASA, Purdue ...