According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

NASA is on track to roll out Orion and SLS, the spacecraft that will send four astronauts on a lunar flyby mission as part of Artemis II, marking the next step toward the mission with a goal of sending humans further into space than ever before.

Three asteroids namely 2026 FA asteroid, 2026 EF2 asteroid and 2026 ED3 asteroid, will fly near Earth on March 19, 2026. NASA tracks them closely and confirms all flybys are not harmful to planet Earth.

NASA managed to miss a meteor explosion over Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday (March 17), not long after a scientist explained why it's impossible to track each and every one. The blast, which produced a shockwave equivalent to around 250 tons of TNT, came from an object just two metres wide and weighing roughly seven tonnes, as National Today reports.

NASA’s SEaRCH project uses smartphone reports from volunteers to track hail size and storm patterns, combining community observations with satellite data to improve precipitation research.

Track the Artemis II mission in real time using NASA's AROW tracker. See Orion's location, speed, distance from Earth and Moon, and mission milestones live.