The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have identified 19 super- and ...

An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.

A Near-Earth Object (NEO)—an asteroid designated 2025 YU6—is expected to make a close approach to Earth on January 11, 2026. According to the data released by the European Space Agency (ESA), the ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid that’s heading towards Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring around 230 feet in ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever observed traveling through the solar system, following 1I/'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Each encounter has sparked fascination—and ...

Stargazers and scientists are getting a holiday present from the cosmos this week. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, will get “closest” to Earth on Friday, December 19, as part of its journey across ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is travelling away from the sun on its way back to interstellar space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an ...

The comet poses no danger to Earth and will pass at a distance of about 170 million miles. Scientists are studying the object, which originated outside our solar system, using telescopes like Hubble ...