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At 2.67 million miles, asteroid 2015FF may seem far away from the Earth but is still within the range of being called 'potentially hazardous.'

A massive asteroid which is bigger in size than the Statue of Unity is currently moving toward the Earth, and NASA has issued a warning.

The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) was conceived at UNISPACE III in 1999. The purpose of SGAC was, and remains, to support...

A report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory states that a 213-meters wide asteroid named 2022 OE02, larger than the Statue of Unity (182 meters) located in the state of Gujarat, India is expected to come as close as 5.1 million kilometres to Earth.  NASA has classified the asteroid as a potentially hazardous asteroid; meaning, it is a near-Earth Object (NEO) that poses a significant threat to the planet. 

The National Space Society and Planetary Society Issue Joint Statement on the Urgent Need to Fund Planetary Defense

The space rock — designated as 388945 (2008 TZ3) — is expected to make its closest approach on Sunday, May 15

The White Houses 2023 federal budget request allocates no money to NASAs Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747 jet equipped with a telescope.

The clip was captured by Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist and manager of the Virtual Telescope Project, provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy.

A team has come up with an ambitious plan to send a probe to catch up with 'Oumumua as it travels farther and farther away from Earth.

The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times farther away from the planet than the moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph at 21:51 GMT tonight.