NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies has been tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4 since it first came into view last year.

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...

An asteroid will zoom past Earth this week at such ... The space rock, dubbed 2023 DZ2 by NASA, is expected to fly between Earth and the moon at speeds exceeding 17,400 miles per hour, according ...

On April 13, 2029, Apophis, a 1,100-foot-long asteroid, will fly less than 20,000 miles above Earth’s surface, closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites — meaning it will be visible ...

A potential lunar collision with asteroid 2024 YR4 could eject high-speed debris toward Earth, endangering our satellite ...

Related: How big must an asteroid be to end human civilization? A second big asteroid called 2006 BE55 will fly by Earth today (Feb. 28) and is the one passing within 2.2 million miles of our planet.

Scientists have only directly observed the asteroid fly by Earth twice before. But based on the space rock's orbital data, JPL has simulated every close approach the asteroid has made since 1900 ...

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.

Smaller objects shoot past Earth all the time, according to asteroid expert Davide Farnocchia with NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. Asteroids the size of this latest one fly by about ...

Lucy’s next target will be the dark, reddish asteroid 15094 Polymele. It'll fly by this space rock in Sept. 2027. At 13 miles (21 kilometers) in diameter, 15094 Polymele is the smallest of Lucy ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating efforts to study the object during this the once-in-a-lifetime experience.