While everyone was looking over Earth’s collective shoulder toward the asteroid that was potentially going to whiz past us the day before Election Day, an entirely different one came at us via our ...

A small asteroid made an extremely close pass of Earth recently and wasn't detected until after it had already passed. The asteroid known as 2020 VT4 flew by Earth at a distance of just 240 miles. It ...

That was a close one! Setting a record for the closest flyby, a pickup-sized asteroid squeaked by our planet about 250 miles over the Southern Pacific on Friday the 13th – and we didn’t even see it ...

An asteroid the size of a pickup truck flew by Earth last week, setting the record for the closest asteroid to zoom by the planet without hitting it, NASA said. An asteroid known as 2020 VT4 passed by ...

Last week, the Earth had its closest shave with an asteroid ever recorded, when a small space rock skimmed just 370 km (230 miles) above the surface. For comparison, that’s closer than the orbit of ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a “small house” came uncomfortably close to Earth, missing our planet by nearly 250 miles. Deemed “2020 VT4,” the asteroid has made history as coming the closest to ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a Ford F-150 flew less than 300 miles away from Earth last week, setting a record for the closest-known asteroid to fly past the planet without hitting it, NASA ...