2 days agoAsteroid to have 'extremely close encounter' with Earth this weekAn asteroid will have an "extremely close encounter" with Earth on Thursday, when it flies by the planet at a distance of fewer than 20,000 miles, according to the Virtual Telescope Project.
3 days agoNASA finds parts of another asteroid on asteroid BennuNASA has discovered something peculiar on the asteroid Bennu – bits of another asteroid.
September 10Baffling interstellar object 'Oumuamua could be a 'dust bunny'A new study now suggests 'Oumuamua might be something very common on Earth: a cosmic "dust bunny."
September 8'Potentially hazardous' asteroid wider than two football fields set to fly past Earth next weekAn asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
August 31Asteroid wider than basketball court to fly past Earth, NASA saysAn asteroid wider than a basketball court is expected to fly past Earth tomorrow, but it will not pose a threat, NASA says.
August 23Asteroid to fly past Earth just before Election Day, NASA saysAn asteroid is headed towards Earth, the day before Election Day, according to NASA.
August 19Pickup truck-sized asteroid flew within 2K miles of Earth on Sunday and NASA didn't see itNASA may have updated its plan to protect the planet from asteroid strikes, but a space rock the size of a pickup truck zipped past the planet at a distance of approximately 1,830 miles on Sunday, the closest ever recorded. And the space agency didn't see it until after it happened.
August 11Perseid meteor shower on deck: What you need to knowStargazers are in for a treat early Wednesday when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak.
July 2162-mile space rock caused massive asteroid shower that hit Earth, moon 800M years ago, study saysEight hundred million years ago, a 62-mile-wide asteroid broke apart and sent 110 trillion pounds of meteorites crashing into the moon and the Earth, according to a new study.
July 17A man digs up boulder in his garden, not realizing that it was a historic meteoriteA rock discovered in a garden in Germany has been confirmed as the largest stony meteorite ever found in the country.
