Asteroid 2026 CU1 will sweep past Earth this week at high speed, close enough to attract attention yet deemed safe, raising ...

A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Earth faces a significant threat from thousands of undetected asteroids capable of destroying cities. NASA's planetary defence chief warns that current systems cannot reliably stop these 'city-killers ...

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nasa said that around 15,000 mid-sized asteroids are unaccounted for - Maciej Frolow Astronomers do not know where thousands of ...

On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million satellites to power data centres in space. The proposal ...