NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to ... by the asteroid’s surface is used to estimate how big it is. However, the ...

Updated orbit predictions show the chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in seven years has dropped to practically zero, according to NASA. The near-earth object was discovered in 2024 and ...

Astronomers now say a newly discovered asteroid has a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA — the second time they've increased the odds recently. The near-earth object was ...

Reality does not instill the same confidence one sees in sci-fi depictions of scenarios in which near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets approach our planet. In “Deep Impact” and ...

Earth is not in danger of being hit by an asteroid in the near future ... will simply fly past our planet. That’s a good thing, because an asteroid that big, measuring 40 to 90 meters across ...