NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on Tuesday evening. Dubbed 2024 ON, the celestial space rock measures 950 ...
The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August ...
The tiny asteroid will complete a wide orbit over the course of 53 days, but don't get your hopes up about seeing it.
Have you heard about Asteroid Apophis? It's like the rockstar of space—cool name, big impact! This bad boy has been causing a ...
In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...
Short visits from a "Near-Earth object" (NEO)—like the upcoming visit from 2024 PT5 —happen somewhat often, while longer mini-moon events are rare and only occur every 10 to 20 years, Space.com ...
A potentially hazardous asteroid the size of a sports stadium is set to skim past Earth this week. The asteroid, known as 2024 ON, is estimated to be around 290 meters (950 feet) across.
Earth is going to have a second moon for two brief months, as a small asteroid piece will be incorporated into the planet's ...
A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...
From "Bottle Rocket" to "Asteroid City," we pick our favorites. Just like Royal would with the Tenenbaum children.
A brief look at the spacecraft and its cargo: Asteroid chaser Osiris-Rex blasted off on the $1 billion mission in 2016. It arrived at Bennu in 2018 and spent the next two years flying around the ...