The space rock is hurtling toward the Earth at a zippy 8,478 miles per hour miles per hour, according to the space agency.

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. - NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists have ...

The hardest push on asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 was not providedby NASA’s half-ton Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft but instead came from the asteroid itself. As the spacecraft ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each ...