An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed of 14,743 mph (23,700 km/h). The space rock, known as 2024 XN1 ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

According to the reports presented by various online sources, today, an asteroid named 2024 XS3 will make a close pass by Earth. Don’t worry- - it won’t hit us! NASA has confirmed that it’s ...

It's been a busy week for asteroid watchers. A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week for asteroid watchers all ...

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...

Nostradamus's writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. Nostradamus, a French astrologer and ...

A small asteroid was spotted on a collision course with Earth. (X/@esa) A small asteroid illuminated the Siberian night sky early on December 4. The European Space Agency (ESA) reported that the ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...