Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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This story has been updated to correct the date of the meteorite sighting. An unconfirmed meteorite lit up the sky over Michigan Sunday evening, Dec. 7, according to the Michigan Storm Chasers, a ...

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...