Asteroids

Asteroid 2023 RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.

This comet was only discovered on August 11 by amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura, and is getting brighter in the sky as it approaches the Earth and sun.

The launch of the Psyche spacecraft to its namesake asteroid is due this October, and will only arrive at its Asteroid Belt location in 2029.

The huge explosion of light was seen on August 2, with eyewitnesses across the eastern U.S. reporting a mystery object falling to Earth.

Craters deeper than 6 miles and older than 2 billion years may have eroded away completely, scientists have found.

A cloud of debris is seemingly orbiting around a star in the same path as another planet, in the first evidence of two exoplanets sharing an orbit.

The phenomenon of people being struck by meteorites is extremely rare, with the majority of them falling into the ocean.

You can watch the asteroid as it approaches our planet in real-time online via a livestream provided by the Virtual Telescope Project.

The asteroid is due to fly past its closest point to Earth at 2:36 p.m. ET at a speed of around 30,500 mph.

The asteroid, named 488453 (1994 XD), is due to pass the Earth at a speed of around 48,000 mph.

A new asteroid has been discovered orbiting the Earth, interacting only weakly with the planet in a way that classifies the object as a "quasi-moon".

Three of the asteroids are due to fly by our home planet at distances of around 4 million miles, while one will approach nearly as close as the moon.

The fireball was spotted on Saturday night as it exploded in a flash of green light, having vaporized from intense friction with the atmosphere upon descent.

The asteroid, which is called 2023 HV5, will fly past the Earth on Wednesday at around 10 times the speed of a bullet being fired.

The asteroid, named 2006 HV5, is one of the many Near-Earth Objects tracked by NASA.

Water has been found hidden within glass beads on the moon's surface, having been formed and trapped by the blazing-hot impacts of meteors.

The time-lapse video shows the asteroid, known as 2023 DZ2, zooming through space at a speed of more than 17,400 miles per hour over 1 million miles from Earth.

A livestream will show the asteroid flying by Earth at slightly less than half the average distance between our planet and the moon.

The asteroid, known as 2023 EY, was only discovered two days ago by a telescope at the Sutherland Observing Station in South Africa.

A Reddit post suggested NASA made odds an asteroid strike was likelier than dying in a plane crash.

The mass extinction event resulted from the impact of a giant space rock that smashed into the Earth around 66 million years ago.

A spectacularly bright meteor soaring across the night sky on Sunday night was caught on cameras across the northern U.S. and Canada.

Astrophotographers across the world have posted spectacular images of the rare green comet ZTF as it passed close to Earth on February 1.

asteroid 2023 BU made one of the closest approaches to Earth on record Thursday, zooming past our planet just over 2,000 miles above the surface.

An asteroid known as 2023 BU will make a very close approach to our planet though.

The space rock will fly past our planet at only 2,500 miles above its surface while traveling at roughly 33,300 miles per hour.

The largest of these space rocks is more than twice the size of the world's tallest building.

The three asteroids range in size, between that of a Boeing-777 and of a 50-story building.

The asteroid, named 2015 RN35, will be traveling at speeds of 13,220 miles per hour as it flies past our planet.

The chances that a potentially dangerous asteroid will strike Earth are tiny, but over long periods, the odds that a collision will occur are not negligible.