The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

In 2022, NASA scientists successfully nudged an asteroid off its course, shortening its orbit by 32 minutes as part of the ...

A huge asteroid the size of a 30-story building is racing through space and will make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, May ...

The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about the length of three football ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

A radical architectural proposal by New York-based Clouds Architecture Office envisions the world’s tallest building — ...

Even though it's fast and close, the asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of 6.8 million kilometers (4.2 million miles).

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...

Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth is even more helpful for scientists. The most informative analyses ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.