Obama notes that he's busy working on the speech… Watch a massive asteroid pass by Earth, beginning at 9 p.m. EST An asteroid the size of three football fields is expected to zip by Earth at a ...

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The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

The estimated flight path of an asteroid the size of Big Ben’s tower will see it pass over some of the world’s most populous cities, according to the latest data from Nasa. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid. ESA-Science Office It seems that Earth isn’t likely to be struck by ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an ...

This first-of-its-kind attempt altered the orbital path of Asteroid Didymos, with the mission proving so successful that even the live stream didn’t fail. It was not just a technological triumph ...

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...