NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

A tiny asteroid was detected on a collision course with Earth today (Dec. 3) and is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. The asteroid is completely harmless and is expected to produce a ...

Editor’s Note: The livestream event meant to show Asteroid 2020 XR making its pass by Earth has been canceled due to weather. (NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday ...

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2020 XR taken on 24 Nov. 2024 by Gianluca Masi at The Virtual ... [+] Telescope Project. An asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will fly by Earth ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core dril ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed of 14,743 mph (23,700 km/h). The space rock, known as 2024 XN1 ...

The asteroid's surface temperature varies daily between ~310 and ~340 Kelvin (approximately 37–67 °C), and reaches as low as 200 Kelvin (-73 °C) when not exposed to sunlight.