An enormous asteroid that is nearly as large as two Empire State Buildings passed safely by Earth on Tuesday astronomers said. NASA classifies the object as "potentially hazardous," yet the asteroid ...

NASA says an asteroid twice as big as the Empire State Building is projected to pass by Earth sometime next week. According to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid, named 7482 ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand why this encounter is more routine than remarkable. The asteroid is named ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...