The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...

An asteroid which is hurtling towards Earth has a 0.41 per cent chance of ... with NASA having admitted it "didn’t see it coming". Known as 2020QG, it flew just 1,830 miles over the southern ...

NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles. With a diameter of about 170 feet—roughly the size of a commercial ...

NASA ALERT! Huge Asteroid To COLLIDE With Earth? Impact Could Equal Hundreds Of Nuclear Bombs Scientists said that the size ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our skies until Nov. 25 before returning to the solar system.

NASA has issued a warning of a stadium-sized asteroid heading straight towards Earth at high speed ... of 386 million km from the Sun and coming within 105 million km of it.

so the researchers based their models on a similar two-lobed asteroid, Itokawa, which has been studied in greater detail. The researchers then simulated each model's movement toward Earth ...