NASA alert: Giant jet-sized Asteroid to whiz past Earth tomorrow at shocking speed of 28,000mphA newly discovered asteroid, 2025 QD8, roughly the size of a commercial jet, is set to pass Earth at a distance of 135,465 miles. While cla...
03 Sep, 2025, 12.34 AM IST
Plane-sized Asteroid 2025 OW will fly-by at 47,000 mph this week, but NASA scientists say it’s nothing newA large asteroid named 2025 OW will pass by Earth on 28 July at a distance of about 393,000 miles, travelling at nearly 47,000 mph. NASA co...
27 Jul, 2025, 11.42 AM IST
Look up: An asteroid measuring 35-storey building will pass earth today, but NASA says don't worryOn April 11, 2025, a large asteroid named 2023 KU, approximately 113 meters wide, will safely pass Earth at a distance of over one million ...
11 Apr, 2025, 11.10 AM IST
Dodging Doomsday: NASA’s $1.4 billion telescope will hunt city-killing asteroids, prevent Earth’s next big bangNASA is developing the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that cou...
28 Mar, 2025, 12.39 AM IST
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Is Earth in danger? Scientists assess the risk of a 32-story-sized space rockThe European Space Agency (ESA) has increased the estimated risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032, now at 2.2%. Fir...
08 Feb, 2025, 10.27 AM IST
Is the planet Earth in danger? What was found in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars by the James Webb Space Telescope?The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a number of small asteroids, some of which may be heading towards Earth.
17 Dec, 2024, 08.00 PM IST
Asteroid on collision course with Earth: Here’s asteroid size, impact timing, effect and where to watchA small asteroid, about 70 cm in diameter, is set to enter Earth's atmosphere over northern Siberia tonight. The event, expected around 9:4...
04 Dec, 2024, 01.00 AM IST
Asteroid 2024 JG 15 approaching the Earth, NASA reports. Will it hit our planet?A series of Asteroids are approaching the Earth in May, according to NASA. However, none of them pose any danger.
21 May, 2024, 09.58 PM IST
Chelyabinsk meteor: Will asteroids hit Earth?Chelyabinsk meteor incident happened 10 years ago but apprehensions are still very much there over potential asteroid strike.
15 Feb, 2023, 11.50 PM IST
2020 QG: Twenty-ft-long, closest-ever asteroid passes Earth over Indian OceanIt was moving at nearly 12.3 kilometres per second.
19 Aug, 2020, 05.47 PM IST
NASA to observe asteroid flyby to test planetary defense techEven though scientists cannot yet predict exactly how close it will approach, they are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometres...
30 Jul, 2017, 03.35 PM IST
- Asteroid flyby to help NASA test global tracking network
New York, July 30 (IANS) A small asteroid that is expected to fly close to the Earth in October will help NASA to test its network of obser...
30 Jul, 2017, 01.57 PM IST
- Scientists working on deflecting asteroids from Earth
London, Jan 26 (IANS) The collision of an asteroid with Earth can have devastating impact but a team of researchers is working out how to d...
27 Jan, 2017, 01.20 AM IST
New NASA programme to protect Earth from asteroids, cometsMore than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date - over 95 per cent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in...
17 Jan, 2016, 06.43 PM IST
Solar wind may help detect Earth-bound space rocksEven if main asteroid never comes close to planet, Earth's gravitational pull can peel smaller orbitals off and bring them directly toward ...
22 Dec, 2014, 06.12 PM IST
How to protect Earth from potentially hazardous asteroidsAnalysis of one of the most infamous near-Earth asteroids has allowed scientists to discover how best to protect Earth from a potential imp...
15 Aug, 2014, 06.15 PM IST
A Chancy SurvivalThe fact that 65 million years ago all the dinosaurs got wiped out in an analogous asteroidal impact doesn’t really matter to us today beca...
20 Feb, 2014, 06.55 AM IST