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." ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...

A massive asteroid the size of a bus is forecast to shoot past the Earth tomorrow. The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

TL;DR: An asteroid was detected only two hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Pacific Ocean, bypassing detection systems. A network of four telescopes identified an ...

The object bypassed impact monitoring systems. Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early ...