The asteroid 1989 JA is more than a mile long and is twice the size of the tallest building in the world. ... Largest asteroid to approach Earth in 2022 will zoom past our planet this week.

The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists previously thought.

NASA is monitoring an asteroid called Bennu which has a 1/2700 chance of impacting Earth between 2175 and 2195. But as that is a long time off, here are the top five biggest asteroids. 1.

The giant space rock—known as (52768) 1998 OR2—is the biggest asteroid to make a close approach to Earth in 2020, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.) ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

An asteroid some six miles (10 kilometers) wide or bigger smashed into Earth and created the Vredefort Crater, in present-day South Africa, some 2 billion years ago, long before even the dinosaurs ...

Asteroid 2001 FO32 is the largest asteroid that has been predicted to make a close approach of Earth this year. It will zip by from a safe distance on Sunday, according to NASA.

An astroid due to pass Earth at a distance of 145 million miles on 1 September will be the biggest to do so since records began. It is the closest that the 2.7 mile wide asteroid, named Florence ...

The asteroid lit up the skies in a remote, sparsely inhabited region near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. It unleashed a 10 to 15 megaton explosion — similar in size to the 1954 Castle Bravo ...

The damage caused by an asteroid impact depends on its size. But how big must a space rock be to cause an apocalypse? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Big Asteroid Just Flew By, And Guess What? ... An asteroid that's about the size of three football fields flew past Earth on Monday, coming within 2.1 million miles.

The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists previously thought.