The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An asteroid the "size of an aeroplane" is expected to pass by Earth in the coming days. The space rock named 2025 OW will ...

A large asteroid once considered the greatest known risk to Earth may now be on track for a direct hit — not on our planet, ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

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Initially flagged as a potential Earth threat, asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot space rock, is now predicted to potentially ...

NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

Astronomers have been tracking this asteroid for 17 years and can accurately predict when it orbits the sun, ... NASA's new asteroid-hunting telescope: Made to protect Earth from disaster.

In what seems to be the backstory of a doomsday science fiction flick, NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. Here's what we know about Asteroid 2024 YR4 , and ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

A NASA space telescope could help track down 90% of asteroids big enough to crush New York. NASA is finally advancing the telescope, called NEO Surveyor, after years of passing it over.