The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

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The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is keeping a close eye on five asteroids heading our way. So we should probably get to know them a little bit, yeah? The biggest one is Asteroid 2020 WG. It's ...

NASA tracks close approaches and calculates the odds of those space rocks — including asteroids, meteors and meteorites — impacting Earth. "The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that ...

That's not unusual; astronomers spot around 2,000 near-Earth asteroids every year, most of which are spotted as they near their closest approaches to Earth, according to the Catalina Sky Survey.

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

Luckily, Apophis won’t hit Earth in 2029. Instead, it will pass by Earth safely at a distance of 19,794 miles (31,860 ...

The country's plans span the moon, near-Earth asteroids, comets, obtaining the first-ever samples from Mars and a mission to the Jupiter system in the next few years, according to top Chinese ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has alerted about three asteroids, 2024 SM4, 2024 TX5, and 2024 TA7, set to make close approaches to Earth on October 13. Despite their proximity, they pose no threat.

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." That's ...

The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is keeping a close eye on five asteroids heading our way. So we should probably get to know them a little bit, yeah? The biggest one is Asteroid 2020 WG.