The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near ... And two revolutionary observatories coming online in the next few years will only ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth. An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth Saturday June 28, 2024. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it.

A large "city-killer" asteroid previously thought to have an increasing chance of colliding with Earth may actually be on course to hit the Moon instead, according to fresh calculations. The space ...

further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when the asteroid makes a close flyby to Earth in 2029 and again in 2036. In the coming years ...