The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists ...

NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

The fear of an asteroid collision sometimes haunts our imagination, especially after the cataclysmic event that eradicated the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But what is the actual probability ...

A skyscraper-sized asteroid just buzzed past Earth — and yep, we’re somehow still here to talk about it. In what ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It’s been a real point of pride that the University of Arizona led a mission to grab a sample of an asteroid and bring it to Earth. Now those samples are teaching us more about ...