A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Heads up, everybody. A couple of asteroids approximately the size of a school bus are set to make close approach with Earth ...

A large asteroid could pass close enough to ... The moon itself is fewer than 240,000 miles from Earth and there are often asteroids passing Earth within that distance, she said.

Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% probability of slamming into Earth in 2032. And yes, that makes it the only one of more-than 37,000 known large space rocks near Earth with such ...

“While there is large uncertainty in whether the asteroid will impact Earth ... Apophis will pass within 19,400 miles (31,200 km) of Earth — closer than geostationary satellites and the ...