The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, ... (7,500,000 km) of Earth and are larger than 500 feet (150 meters) ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning, "The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.". A similar ...

This photo provided by Gianluca Masi shows asteroid 2023 DZ2, indicated by arrow at center, about 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) away from the Earth on March 22, 2023. On Saturday ...

At present, the line of 500 possible asteroid positions (pictured below) on Dec. 22, 2032, measures 1.2 million miles long. The risk assessment of 1.8% is just the ratio of the Earth's diameter to ...

Six radar views of asteroid 2011 AG5 after its close approach to Earth in ... (1.8 million kilometers). ... New data shows it's roughly 1,600 feet (500 meters) long and 500 feet (150 ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. ... (10 kilometers) in diameter and marked the last known large asteroid to hit our world.

The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had been two days earlier, when YR4 was about 800,000 kilometers from our planet, roughly twice as far away as the moon.