If an object the size of the dino-killer asteroid (roughly 10 kilometers or 6 miles) was rattling around the inner Solar System with a chance of hitting Earth in the next few centuries ...

Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

Thankfully, no known large asteroids are expected to hit Earth anytime soon. The majority of asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt, which circles the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

This means that, despite passing within touching distance on the solar system scale, there is absolutely no chance of the Christmas Eve asteroid hitting Earth. And while that is good news for ...

Astronomers in 2004, discovered an asteroid as big as the Eiffel ... Despite it being deemed to have an uncomfortably small chance of colliding with Earth when it was first discovered, scientists ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected ...

ALBAWABA - A small asteroid, named "C0WEPC5," crashed into the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday morning. According to media sources, astronomers could not detect it before it disintegrated in the ...

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock ...

This means that, despite passing within touching distance on the solar system scale, there is absolutely no chance of the Christmas Eve asteroid hitting Earth. And while that is good news for ...