An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the ...

Once thought to be the debris of a destroyed planet, the asteroid belt is now understood as a region shaped by gravity, collisions and the powerful influence of Jupiter. Studying it helps scientists ...

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...

An Aug. 19 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) appears to show footage of an object streaking across the sky and colliding with the moon, sending out a visible shockwave. “Moon hit by asteroid ...

On Oct. 1, 2025, the small asteroid known as 2025 TF whizzed past Earth at a distance of only 266 miles (428 kilometers) from our planet — roughly the same altitude as the International Space Station.

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn’t correspond to any of ...

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it was detected hours after the flyby and posed no danger. ESA astronomers ...

The day marks the anniversary of a large meteor impact in Siberia on June 30, 1908. This is known as the Tunguska event. As the meteor entered the atmosphere, it exploded several miles above the ...