The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close flyby of Earth. Traveling at over 20,000 miles per hour, it is set to pass ...

In our solar system, thousands of asteroids orbit dangerously close to Earth, known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Among them, one asteroid has sparked significant concern: Apophis. This massive ...

Of the well over 30,000 near-Earth objects that have been discovered and tracked to date, no large asteroid capable of causing wide-spread destruction is expected to strike our planet in the next ...

"For an object the size of 2025 OW, while close approaches might happen yearly, an actual Earth impact would only occur roughly every 10,000 years," Farnocchia notes.

Astronomers expect to find more with new tools designed to identify near-Earth objects. The first of these was ʻOumuamua, discovered in 2017, when it was already moving away from the Sun.