2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth ... At one point earlier this year, NASA and the European Space Agency put the odds of the asteroid striking Earth in 2032 at ...

Prior to NASA, he served 23 years of Air Force active duty working ... Space.com: In recent times, the worry du jour seems to ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

NASA and other global space scientists keep a close eye on asteroids known as near-Earth objects (NEOs). These are comets or ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

Per NASA, the asteroid will only be visible from Earth for a ... It won't be visible again until 2028 when its orbit brings it back toward Earth. The 2024 YR4 asteroid caused quite a stir when ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

NASA shares update on potential for city-destroying asteroid and says the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth are very slim.

A team of astronomers used the Gemini South Observatory in Chile to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 in multiple wavelengths as it ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.