The biggest asteroid of 2021 is set to zoom past the planet at ... but this time it will be ten times closer to Earth at a distance of 2 million kilometres. The near-Earth object, dubbed 2001 ...

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, on ...

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 ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Here are three. 2010 RF12 tops Nasa's watch-list in terms of the probability of Earth impact There is a 4.7% chance of a hit by the asteroid, which is estimated to measure 7m in diameter Nasa ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a Ford F-150 flew less than 300 miles away from Earth last week, setting a record for the closest-known asteroid to fly past the planet without hitting it, NASA ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...