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

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut. The space agency released the images Monday, a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ice. The close pass sounds ominous, but the science behind these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...