Asteroid News

A massive asteroid, 2024 YR4, bigger than a football field, is heading toward Earth with a 1.3% chance of impact on December 22, 2032. Discovered by NASA's ATLAS on December 27, 2024, it has been classified as a Level 3 threat on the Torino scale. The asteroid's potential impact zone includes northern India, central Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists compare its possible damage to the Tunguska event of 1908, which flattened forests in Siberia. Experts urge global observatories to monitor its trajectory closely. (Pictures by Freepik)

The Asteroid is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Siberia tonight. The event is anticipated around 9:45 pm IST.

Baat Pate Ki: Three big asteroids are coming very close to the earth. All three asteroids will pass close to the Earth in July. The Aryabhatta Observation Institute of Nainital has issued a research report in this regard.

Baat Pate Ki: Three big asteroids are coming very close to the earth. All three asteroids will pass close to the Earth in July. The Aryabhatta Observation Institute of Nainital has issued a research report in this regard.

NASA's DART spacecraft has hit a target asteroid in the first planetary defence test This was confirmed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson This was humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body

NASA spacecraft Dart rammed an asteroid named Dimorphos, which was 9.6 million kilometers away, in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

The asteroid will zoom past earth at a 3,480,000-mile distance The asteroid is approximately 104 metres wide, meaning it is wider than Big Ben is tall The most recent asteroid to hit the planet was eight years ago in Russia

To protect the Earth from asteroid attacks, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The purpose of this mission is to change the direction of the spacecraft by colliding with the asteroid coming towards the Earth.

The DART mission is planned to take off on November 23 to hit Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid. Currently, it doesn't pose a threat to Earth.

Lucy will explore the Trojan asteroids with a suite of remote sensing instruments Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter`s Trojan Asteroids

An asteroid twice the size of Empire State Building will fly past Earth today, it will be closer to our planet than moon.

This massive asteroid is called 2016 AJ193 and has been classified as ‘potentially hazardous’ by NASA. 2016 AJ193 asteroid will pass Earth at a speed of 94,208 km per hour.

NASA scientists said there was a 1-in-1,750 chance that Bennu, which is a bit wider than the Empire State Building is tall, could collide with Earth between now and 2300. The acorn-shaped body was formed in the early days of our solar system Bennu is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide

Asteroid AF8 is much smaller than other large asteroids that have passed by the Earth.

The largest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 is passing by Earth today The asteroid is about as 0.8 to 1.7 kilometres in diameter It will make its closest approach at a distance of about two million kilometres

An asteroid of the size of Eiffel Tower is moving towards the earth. It may strike sometime in early 2021. The asteroid called 2021 CO247 is 0.83 times the height of the Eiffel Tower.

NASA has confirmed that the asteroid named 153201 2000 WO107, will barrel past Earth on Sunday, November 29 and is currently speeding though space at a whopping 56,000mph.

“Bennu continues to surprise us with great science and also throwing a few curveballs,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science. He added, “And although we may have to move more quickly to stow the sample, it’s not a bad problem to have. We are so excited to see what appears to be an abundant sample that will inspire science for decades beyond this historic moment.”

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth successfully snatched on Tuesday a sample from the celestial body's rocky surface. NASA's minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a four-hour descent toward the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid. At 6:12 p.m. EDT (22:12 GMT), the spacecraft performed a meticulous five-second 'touch-and-go' technique.

An asteroid, the size of a Boeing-747, is heading towards Earth and may collide with the Earth's orbit on October 7 (Wednesday). According to asteroid monitoring centre of NASA, the asteroid named 2020 RK2 is expected to cross the Earth's orbit.