A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...
NASA warns: Thousands of asteroids could crash into Earth. The asteroid is moving at an incredible speed. Scientists estimate ...
According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.
NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.
JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...
Earth has a near miss-twice-after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth on March 13, 2026. Get the latest 2026 EG1 flyby stats here.
More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...
NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.
About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...