To put it in perspective, asteroid 2020 XR is about 1,200 feet in diameter, large enough to wipe out a small city. It’s designated as a “near Earth object,” or NEO, based on its size and how ...

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football stadium will zoom past our planet in the early hours tomorrow morning (Dec. 4) — and you can watch it live. The gigantic space rock ...

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

An asteroid up to 100 feet in diameter passed closely by Earth early on Wednesday morning. The space rock named 2020 GH2 came closer to the Earth than the distance between the Earth and the Moon ...

Asteroid 2020 OO1, initially detected near Earth by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakala, is projected to make a close approach Monday. — University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy photo ...

Astronomers with the Slooh observatory will be taking a close look at the asteroid during a live stream beginning tonight at 7 pm EDT. You can view the stream in the video player above.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

NASA is monitoring a car-sized asteroid that's expected to zip past Earth tomorrow morning at around 28,655 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 FM18," estimated to be about 15 feet ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to ... 174 to 220 feet (53 to 67 meters), Live Science previously reported. 2024 YR4 is one of the largest objects ...