The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future. Instead of stargazing with a traditional ...

Although Thursday's routes do mark the closest recorded Earth approaches to date for these asteroids, their paths are still quite far away, too distant for any human to spot one of them zooming ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

An asteroid about the size of ... 2023 BU will come within just 3% of the Earth-Moon distance. So close, in fact, that large telescopes will easily spot it. The close pass will be shown in real ...

While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit ... like TheSkyLive and Stellarium can help you try to spot 2023 DZ2 later this week as it brightens and appears ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

NASA constantly monitors asteroids and comets that make relatively close approaches to Earth as part of its Asteroid Watch ...

NASA’s asteroid probe will begin its return journey to Earth in December and arrive back to Earth in 2023. Water is precious in the universe. It’s a vital ingredient for life as we know it ...

Scientists know that the vast majority of meteorites that come crashing down to Earth originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt: a region between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly ...