Asteroid Day 2024 is coming up, commemorating the explosion of the largest observed asteroid as it struck the Earth above Tunguska in Siberia in 1908. The strike was a small rotation of the Earth ...

Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid ...

2024 TP17 is an aeroplane-sized 170 ft asteroid that is going to make its closest approach to Earth at 4,640,000 kilometres. It’s worth noting that even after this close call, the 2024 TP17 ...

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to our planet than the distance to the moon this Saturday. While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this ...

While the internet is abuzz with reports of several large asteroid s making distant fly-bys past Earth this week, shouldn’t the real concern be the smaller, sneakier asteroids that come ...

26. Another asteroid, 2010 WS, zoomed by closer to Earth last week, and their size estimates overlap. "The uncertainty associated with the size of these objects, neither one of these objects is ...

An asteroid about the size of a giraffe was discovered last weekend and will make an extremely close approach to Earth this Thursday just as a much more distant “green comet” is brightening.

(Photo by Naomi Baker - The FA via Getty Images) The Earth is severing ties this week from a space object ... for the last couple months. The small asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, has been orbiting ...

Scientists suspect it may be a boulder that was blasted off the moon during an asteroid impact. The Earth is severing ties this week from a space object that’s become known as a "mini moon." ...

NASA revealed that 'Asteroid 99942 Apophis' is a near-Earth object (NEO) which is likely to be about 335 meters across. It is expected to be the closest to Earth by 2029. The asteroid is almost ...

Material from an asteroid will "come ... This will allow an effective “Earth rescue” mission to be launched. Harriet Marsden is a writer for The Week, mostly covering UK and global news ...