When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...
NASA is closely tracking two asteroids, 2025 VW and 2025 VC2 that are around 1-2 million miles away from the planet.
The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...
Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.
NASA is monitoring five asteroids passing Earth in mid-November 2025. All objects are moving at safe distances from the planet. According to NASA’s tracking, these five asteroids routinely pass close ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
The Psyche probe captures images of Earth and the Moon from over 180 million miles away as it travels to intercept an ...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) praised President Donald Trump’s teased healthcare plan, comparing its effect to the asteroid that ...