Asteroid 2026 LV, measuring about 47 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth on June 16, 2026. Scientists say the near-Earth object poses no threat to the planet.

Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

Astronomers don’t treat every “close approach” headline the same way the public does. On June 9, two near-Earth objects, 2026 ...

To truly understand what an asteroid is made of, we need to send a probe to it. Remote sensing from ground-based telescopes, ...

The reward is that you could help protect the future of humankind. The object was detected in space on May 15, just two hours ...

Thanks to an onboard camera system that streamed at one-image-per-second back to Earth, mission engineers, along with the viewing public, had a real-time view, albeit one delayed by the 45 seconds or ...

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...