At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating efforts to study the object during this the once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The asteroid is now flying through space at a mind-blowing velocity of more than 64,800 kilometers per hour, making it one of the fastest-moving objects to zip past Earth at this time. Asteroid ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth is no longer a threat, but it could strike the moon, according to scientists. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Even though it won't be crashing into Earth, the close encounter of the asteroid passing near Earth has seen NASA keep a keen eye on its path, given the enormous size and velocity of the asteroid ...

The average impact velocity for an asteroid on Earth is a whopping 17 km per second—this is 25 times faster than an F-35 Lightning strike fighter. To calculate the mass of an asteroid ...

Maggie Lieu has received funding from STFC. In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m ...

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan reported on AstroForge in 2023 when its ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...