People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history.

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis – named after the Egyptian deity of chaos, darkness and fire – is expected to safely pass close to ...

A bus-sized asteroid (2026 HJ1) will pass Earth on April 21, 2026. NASA says it is safe, with no impact risk. Know what it is ...

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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 ...

In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...

The asteroid has a mean diameter of 1,115 feet and was first discovered on June 19, 2004.