Yom Kippur, the Jewish judgment day, is almost here, and three asteroids are set to come with it, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.
The three asteroids will pass by the Earth on Monday, September 25, the day of Yom Kippur,...
The asteroid Dimorphos is behaving in unexpected ways after being hit with a NASA rocket last year, new data suggest.Recent observations of the roughly 580-foot-wide (177 meters) space rock — which NASA intentionally crashed a spaceship into on Sept. 26, 2022,...
Five asteroids, one as large as a house and two each the size of an airplane, will fly past Earth between Sept. 6 and Sept. 12, according to NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard.The house-sized asteroid, called JA5, will be the...
A massive asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is due to fly past the Earth on Monday.
The asteroid, named 488453 (1994 XD), is estimated to be around somewhere between 370 and 830 meters across, or between 1,213 and...
Our planet hides its scars well. It's a shame, actually, as evidence of previous asteroid strikes might help us better plan for the next catastrophic impact.In fact, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center chief scientist, James Garvin, thinks we might have been...
A newly discovered asteroid is prepared to ruin Valentine's Day in 23 years time. Per NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Sentry system—which tracks potential collisions with celestial objects— a 160-foot-wide space rock dubbed 2023 DW has 10 predicted close approaches to Earth, with the...
Our solar system is home to millions of renegade space rocks, and this week three particularly large ones will blaze past Earth. But don't worry – the closest one will still miss our planet by a comfy 2.2 million...
NASA has revealed the schedule for a rocket launch that will visit an asteroid that is valued at 70,000 times the global economy.The US space agency will launch a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket holding sensitive scientific equipment in October 2023 from Kennedy...
Today, there is a potentially hazardous rocky visitor that will come extremely close to Earth! Though, countless asteroids keep zooming past the Earth at astonishing speed, most of them burn up in the atmosphere itself. However, some reach the...
Scientists have identified more than 30,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) to date. So what are the largest "potentially hazardous" NEOs predicted to have a close encounter with Earth in 2023?The term "near-Earth object" is used to refer to any cosmic...