Using the shortcut found by tracking the asteroid, it would take just 153 days to get to Mars and return to the Earth.

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with the kind of precision that has turned near misses into routine science ...

On April 13, 2029, a chunk of rock roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower will thread the gap between Earth and the ring of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Measuring around 32 feet in diameter, the asteroid—known as “2025 ...

On April 29, 2026, two airplane-sized asteroids, 2026 HL3 and 2026 HP3, will safely pass Earth at 1.6 million and 3.68 ...

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small asteroid about the size of a car flew close to Earth overnight Tuesday, giving scientists another chance to study objects ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The space rock—which has been named “2026 BB4”—measures around 54 feet ...

NASA and other space agencies track thousands of near-Earth objects like this one. There are more than 41,000 known near-Earth asteroids that come relatively close to Earth’s orbit, and scientists are ...