(NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday, another, slightly larger asteroid is set to come into view — this one, however, is just passing by. Early Tuesday morning, NASA’s ...

After dropping off an asteroid sample to Earth, a NASA spacecraft is on a new adventure to intersect the asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian spirit of chaos, as it makes a close approach to ...

Rocks knocked off Dimorphos could come back to bite us in a few years—in the form of harmless meteors. Reading time 2 minutes In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully ...

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Editor’s Note: The livestream event meant to show Asteroid 2020 XR making its pass by Earth has been canceled due to weather. (NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Editor’s Note: The livestream event meant to ...