Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...
An asteroid streaked across the sky over northeastern Siberia, creating a spectacular fireball visible to many in the region. The space rock, temporarily named C0WEPC5, measured just 27 inches in ...
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...
Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...
A trail of debris from the asteroid struck by a Nasa spacecraft can be seen stretching thousands of kilometres A new image shows that an asteroid which was deliberately struck by Nasa's Dart probe ...
Asteroid 2023 DW has a better chance of hitting a date of 14 February than our planet, NASA says. A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on ...
A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early ...
Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...
Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.
ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...
A huge asteroid the size of a football field is zipping past the Earth tomorrow. The asteroid, named 2006 WB, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to likely be about 310 feet ...