Currently, NASA is monitoring an asteroid known as 2024 YR4, which may come too close to Earth in 2032. Although the chance of a collision is less than 1%, the NEO Surveyor will track its ...

However, NASA predicts that none will pose any real risk to the planet for another hundred years. Known as "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids" (PHAs), these pieces of cosmic debris come within 4.6 ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter. The largest space rock, known as ...

All three have been deemed as “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids” (PHAs) because they are within 4.6 million miles of the planet. There are around 1,400 PHAs currently being observed by NASA.

NASA is also tracking two airplane-sized asteroids—the "2024 BF" and "2025 GT1"), spanning around 110 to 140 feet in diameter—that will zoom past our planet on Thursday at a distance of around ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 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 ...

NASA’s Lucy mission, named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton that helped illuminate human origins, hopes to clarify how the solar system formed through the study of Trojan asteroids that lead ...

Worried about asteroids? This is the scale NASA uses to gauge how much danger they pose. Astronomers rank objects in space from 0 to 10 based on how likely they are to impact Earth and how much ...

NASA has named 27 asteroids after Black, Hispanic and Native American astronauts and a cosmonaut to recognize their significant contributions to “expand our horizons beyond Earth and to inspire ...