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NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

But when the mockumentary series first aired as a midseason replacement on NBC on March 24, 2005, it struggled in the ratings ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground, the asteroid burns up and produces an impressive light show, streaking across the ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby ... the European Space Agency presented the images during a webcast today. The images ...

Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system ... Agency presented the images during a webcast today. The images presented show Deimos set ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Today, tourists can also visit the site of a more recent cosmic impact, Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, a nearly-mile-wide crater caused by the impact of a 165-foot-wide asteroid about 50,000 ...