An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid that’s approaching Earth at a zippy 36,216 miles per hour. The asteroid—known as “2025 TC”—is projected to make its closest approach at just 53,400 miles from ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. A team of astronomers led by Julio Fernández ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

A newly proposed plan by a team of scientists, including NASA researchers, suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid from striking the moon in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, once ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...