Heads up! An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will blast past Earth at approximately 20,000 miles per hour on Tuesday Sept.

It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued alerts for five asteroids approaching earth. One asteroid is described as ...

( NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth ...

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

Objects flying around Earth are important to track for potential danger. This month, a three-foot asteroid harmlessly burned up as it entered our atmosphere. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection ...

NASA's NEO Surveyor, an infrared space telescope, is under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aimed at detecting ...

However, there are countless tiny asteroids that are too small to track, many of which strike Earth each year. According to his calculations, if an asteroid with enough mass and velocity were to ...

The scientists track the orbits of the known asteroids ... how life-preserving compounds could have landed on Earth. Every asteroid that passes adds to our chances of getting ready for other ...

There’s also a chance that Apophis could collide with another small asteroid between now and 2029. There are 1.2 million known asteroids in the galaxy, but there are others too small to track ...