All news on the topic: Asteroids

An asteroid dubbed '2023 DZ2' by scientists will be swinging by Earth on Saturday night, coming within 110,000 miles of our planet - which means it's defined as a near-Earth object.

The picture was shared on Reddit and shows a strange cloud formation over St Petersburg, Russia. Some said it looks like a 'ball of fire' and others said it could be 'foreshadowing' the end of the world.

Asteroid 2023 D72 was discovered on Monday (February 27) but the building-sized asteroid will enter our atmosphere and fly by Earth later this weekend

NASA has confirmed they are tracking a new asteroid that's 160ft long and could be set for a collision with Earth in another 23 years, and will continue to monitor its whereabouts

Three giant flying space rocks – called 2012 DK31, 2006 BE55 and 2021 QW – are flying past Earth, with one asteroid coming as close as just 2.2million miles to us

On September 26, NASA deliberately manoeuvred its DART spacecraft, directing it to smash into the Dimorphos asteroid at an incredible speed of 13,000 miles per hour - leading to 1,000 tons of dust and rock blasting off the rock

An asteroid as tall as the Empire State building, named 2011 AG5, flew past Earth this month - in the past scientists once feared it had a chance of impacting on the planet

The small 1m asteroid, currently designated as Sar2667, created a shooting star and an 'airburst' when it exploded after entering Earth's atmosphere

Craig Hamilton-Parker was discussing the dangers facing the Earth from space when he announced he believes there will be an asteroid event - but has shared how to save the world

Despite being delayed for a year, NASA is now set to launch the Psyche space programme to an asteroid that is so valuable it's worth about 70,000 times the entire global economy

A huge asteroid has narrowly passed the Earth tonight, flying past the tip of South America in one of the closest approaches of known near-Earth object on record

The 26ft asteroid will pass as close to Earth as the distance from London to Cairo and 10 times closer than satellites - and will be visible from our skies tonight

The asteroid, known as 2023 BU, will zoom 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America - 10 times closer than most communication satellites circling overhead, and around the same distance as the UK to Cyprus

Asteroid 2023 BU was only discovered on Saturday (January 21) but will enter our atmosphere and fly by Earth later this week in one of the nearest misses ever recorded