A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

A YouTube channel has recently released a video that aims to compare a wide range of asteroids. The smallest starts at just ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope. That telescope searches ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

An asteroid approximately the size of two and a half chinchillas impacted the Earth above Siberia, Russia, on Tuesday, ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

Astronomers have discovered a small asteroid that has been quietly accompanying Earth on its journey around the sun for the ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

The massive space rock is about 890 feet in size — more than double the size of the Empire State Building in New York City Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...

A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a tiny 'quasi-moon' that has been shadowing Earth in near-synchronised orbit ...