An asteroid wider than two football fields will zoom past Earth in the wee hours of Thursday (Aug. 4). The asteroid is set to ...

Astronomers had never seen the asteroid, now known as 2022 NF, before. When it passed by the Earth, it was roughly 23 percent of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Astronomers identified ...

The asteroid, 2022 NF, was discovered by the Pan-STARRS astronomical survey on July 4. Scientists quickly made calculations to predict which way the asteroid was headed, and found that it was ...

Astronomers at US space agency NASA discovered the asteroid, named 2022 OE2, on July 26. According to estimates, the space ...

Asteroid 2022 NF will make its closest approach of 55,300 miles to Earth on Thursday, 7 July, but the Virtual Telescope Project is offering a livestream tracking the asteroid’s path that ...

The asteroid, called 2022 NF, will come within 54,843.9 miles of our planet at around 14:45 BST, according to NASA. To put that into perspective, that is just over a quarter of the distance of the ...

The distance is much farther than the asteroid 2022 NF, which had come within 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) of Earth on July 7. The asteroid won’t make another close approach to Earth till ...

An asteroid named 2015 FF, classified as "potentially hazardous" by NASA, will fly by Earth at more than 20,000 mph on Friday. The asteroid, considered to ...

Two skyscraper-size asteroids are zooming toward Earth this weekend, with one making its closest approach on Friday (29 July) ...

Estimated to measure between 5.5 and 12.5 meters, the asteroid 2022 NF was discovered only on July 4. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the asteroid will safely pass the planet, and ...