Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have r ...

A skyscraper-size asteroid named 2025 FA22 will make a close approach to Earth this week, and you can watch it happen live ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

An asteroid the size of two football fields end-to-end is to have a relatively close encounter with Earth on Thursday, Sept.

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