NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

was the mass extinction that followed the impact of a colossal asteroid. That event is the reason dinosaurs aren’t around today and, perhaps more importantly, why mammals had a chance to boom ...

She joined PEOPLE in 2021, but has eight years of experience ... and is the same asteroid that is being examined today – but astroid Eros marked NASA's first near-Earth asteroid rendezvous.

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis ... has never been as important as it is today.

The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 feet across and will come within 925,000 miles of the Earth—about four times the average distance between the Earth ...

A huge asteroid almost the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth today, NASA has warned ... In November 2021, the space agency launched the DART mission which sent a satellite ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet ... to categorize and rate the threat of near-Earth objects, USA Today reported. More: 7 planets will parade across Michigan's sky this week ...

As happens about 20 times a year with current detection capabilities, a known asteroid will safely pass Earth on Wednesday closer than the distance from Earth to the Moon. This asteroid ...

The encounter with Donaldjohanson won't be Lucy's first visit to an asteroid. Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023.

NASA announced Monday that the asteroid, named 2024 YR 4, no longer poses a “significant threat” to Earth in 2032 or beyond. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.