Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR, has scientists on alert as they track its path toward Earth. While the chances of impact on December 22, 2032, are currently estimated at 2%, experts are closely ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

Media commentator and former British Ministry of Defence UFO researcher Nick Pope worries that none of our current, ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...