Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

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

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

since it measured only 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, a four-telescope survey based in Hawaii for monitoring near-Earth objects, had discovered ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to ... a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. 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 ...

You might have heard that a honking big asteroid known as the 'God of Chaos' is heading our way and it's going to get closer to Planet Earth than some satellites. Now scientists reckon that its ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

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