The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 23,197 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Astronomers have issued an interesting update for skygazers: a rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye. Asteroid ...

NASA is tracking asteroid 2026 FV6, a 91-foot airplane-sized space rock set to make a safe close approach to Earth on April ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If an asteroid ever needs to be diverted from a collision course with Earth, a future planetary defense mission may resemble a ...

Five asteroids, including one the size of a house, will approach Earth within the next two days. On Wednesday, March 25, the ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

For a brief stretch on April 13, 2029, a giant space rock will slip closer to Earth than some of the satellites parked high ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid could hit the moon or even Earth in 2032. However, in a major update, NASA ...

Here’s one less thing to worry about: Scientists have confirmed that NASA is even better than it thought at protecting us from asteroids. Despite doomsday movie plots about Earth-ending collisions, a ...