The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

NASA confirmed that a bus-sized asteroid passed Earth on 22 December 2025 in a routine flyby that had been tracked well in advance and posed no risk t.

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events highlight the dynamic sola ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...

You Can Help Defend The Earth Against The Thousands Of Asteroids That Could Flatten Our Cities Crowdfunding a mission to track the "near earth" asteroids and comets that NASA and other space agencies ...

An interstellar object detected last summer has ignited a renewed debate among astronomers after researchers floated the ...

Stargazers and scientists are getting a holiday present from the cosmos this week. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, will get “closest” to Earth on Friday, December 19, as part of its journey across ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...