*The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said Thursday.* The US space agency said it will allow astronomers to get a rare close look at an asteroid. The asteroid, 2001 FO32, is ...

ISLAMABAD - NASA’s asteroid trackers have found three large rocks heading on their way to Earth trajectories. The asteroids are expected to scrape by the planet at separate times on Sunday. NASA’s trackers estimate the fastest of the three rocks is barrelling through space at speeds of ...

ISLAMABAD - A 111-foot huge asteroid is zooming towards Earth at a gut-wrenching speed of 22,000 miles per hour and will be 50 times closer to Earth than the closest neighbouring planet Mercury, according to the space agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) The asteroid will be ...

ISLAMABAD - A massive asteroid named as "Halloween Asteroid' is fast approaching Earth, if it hits earth can kill millions of people, A report has revealed. A massive asteroid heading towards Earth this Halloween, NASA has already warned of an asteroid that is estimated to be larger than the ...

*ISLAMABAD - Here’s a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth.* Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April ...

*WASHINGTON - A gigantic asteroid four times bigger than the UK has come so near to our planet that it’s visible in the night sky without a telescope.* The space rock 4 Vesta, which is the fourth largest known asteroid in the solar system, can be seen until July 16. It recently came with 106 ...

LONDON - An asteroid containing large diamonds that hit the Earth in 2008 came from a "lost" planet in our solar system that existed billions of years ago, says a new study. The parent body from which the celestial rock came was a planetary embryo of a size between Mercury to Mars, said the study ...

ISLAMABAD - The Earth has had many close encounters with asteroids that have conveniently and thankfully missed colliding with our planet by just a tiny distance. Well, the space circuit and the cyberspace are buzzing with the news of another asteroid encounter that is set to happen on Friday, ...

PARIS: A house-sized asteroid grazed past Earth Thursday, passing harmlessly inside the Moon's orbit, as predicted, to give experts a rare opportunity to rehearse for a real strike threat in future.Dubbed 2012 TC4, the object´s passing allowed scientists to practice spotting incoming objects, ...

NEW YORK: A massive asteroid classified by astronomers as ‘potentially hazardous’ – is hurtling towards Earth.The asteroid named 2014 JO25 will fly past our planet safely on 19th April at 4.6 lunar distances which is 1.1 million miles.It will be the closest flyby by a massive piece of space ...