NASA is set to test its "Armageddon"-like mission of crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, and it wants ... us since the popularity of the 2021 doomsday comedy "Don’t Look Up." ...

A huge asteroid almost the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth today, NASA has warned ... In November 2021, the space agency launched the DART mission which sent a satellite ...

Two broad possible outcomes exist for today’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test ... The spacecraft launched in November 2021 and is now 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth.

(AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... while attacking Biden and judges Today in History: May 26, the World War II Dunkirk evacuation ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller ... Meanwhile, a bus-sized asteroid named 2021 TK11 and 2024 TH3 - roughly the size of a house - will ...

Some day, NASA will formally warn the public about a close encounter with an asteroid. Credit ... hazardous' asteroid passing by Earth today?," and "Massive asteroid will swing by Earth after ...

It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks. In November 2023, Lucy successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed ...

A tiny asteroid struck Earth this morning, lighting up the dark sky over northern Siberia as it burned up. Measuring around 27 inches wide, the asteroid—temporarily designated C0WEPC5—was ...

In 2021 a collaborative of scientists published a report that identified the immediate effects of an asteroid, including “shock waves that can knock down forests and buildings, thermal radiation ...

The Webb telescope, launched in 2021 as an international partnership ... According to USA TODAY, the asteroid is moving away from Earth now on its orbital path, so a larger telescope like Webb ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

In the case of Apophis, further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when the asteroid makes a close flyby to Earth in 2029 and again in 2036.