According to the Centre, as they orbit the Sun, the NEOs can occasionally approach close to Earth. However, it explained that a "close" passage astronomically can be very far away in human terms: millions or even tens of millions of kilometres.
An asteroid the size of an airplane is set to cross the Earth's orbit on Wednesday, according to NASA which expects that the space rock will not cause any harm to our home planet.
US President Donald Trump’s new ‘minibus’ fiscal spending bill for 2020 allots $35.6 million to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) to k...
Asteroid 2019 SR8 will be flying past Earth today at a speed ten times that of the average rifle bullet. It's only half the size of the Statue of Liberty but it will only be 5 million kilometers from the planet as it visits.
All it would take is an asteroid as big as a house travelling at 48,000 kilometers an hour colliding into Earth to have an impact equivalent to the H...