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 ...

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 ...

The upcoming flyby is a dress rehearsal for 2027 when Lucy reaches its first so-called Trojan asteroid near Jupiter. Today in History: June 4, the Tiananmen Square Massacre Fed lifts restrictions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's Tianwen-2 will attempt to collect asteroid samples, return them to Earth, and then head out to explore a strange, ...

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 ...

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.