On April 29, an asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth, but it’s not on a destructive path. And new images of the asteroid make it appear as though it’s wearing a face mask.

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

An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth early Wednesday morning, but it’s not expected to collide with our planet. The asteroid is called 52768 (1998 OR2) , and it was first ...

The asteroid will pass by Friday and Saturday on a track that scientists suggest is slightly less than half the average distance to the moon from Earth — which is still 174,650 kilometers, or ...

Asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21 will fly past Earth on June 27. At 7,600 feet across, it is larger than 99 percent of all known near-Earth objects, but it poses no risk to the planet and will pass by ...

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. At 450 feet across, this asteroid is about the same size as ...

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

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.

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

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past a space rock named Dinkinesh before heading to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.

A 200-foot asteroid discovered in February is expected to fly past Earth at about half the distance of the moon on Saturday, posing no threat to the planet, this time.