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 ...

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 ...

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...

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 ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

In 2021, the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test ... Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. However, scientists wondered about long term impact. That's where Hera ...

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.