Sources: USA Today
A small 1.5 m asteroid, 2024 RW, is predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the island of Luzon in the Philippines at approximately 16:40 UTC (00:40 local time), the ninth asteroid to be successfully discovered before impacting Earth. 2024-09-4
NASA says that its DART spacecraft has successfully altered the orbit of the 520 ft asteroid Dimorphos by around 32 minutes in a demonstration of asteroid impact avoidance. 2022-10-11
Astronomers rule out the chances of ~30-meter asteroid 2006 QV impacting Earth in September 2019 by eliminating the possibility of its passing through an area where it would have to be if it were on an impacting orbit. Prior to this, the asteroid had been given a one-in-7,000 chance of impacting Earth. 2019-07-17
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. 2018-11-1
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. 2015-03-6
Research shows that the Chelyabinsk meteor was the remnants of an asteroid that collided with another asteroid 290 million years before entering the Earth's atmosphere over Russia in February of last year. 2014-05-23
Asteroid 2013 TV135 is discovered with an approximately 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032. 2013-10-18
Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 MD passed within 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) of the Earth's surface at about 13:00 EDT flying over the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Antarctica. 2011-06-27
Forty-one scientists publish a paper in "Science" affirming that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, the large-scale mass extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms on Earth ~65.5 million years ago, was caused by an asteroid impact. 2010-03-4