Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

YR4, once the highest impact risk ever recorded, now poses no threat to Earth but has a slightly increased chance of striking ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

On December 22, 2032, the Moon may face a significant event as asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered by the James Webb telescope, is ...

A "city-killer" asteroid was found to have a greater chance of hitting the Moon than Earth, according to a new observation ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

That’s why NASA is launching ... bomb near the asteroid to vaporize part of its surface and push it off course. A nuclear explosion on the asteroid surface itself would risk creating a shotgun ...

The asteroid ... risk to Earth—and to modify that risk, if necessary. Already, space agencies are testing the procedures and technologies needed to neutralize an asteroid’s threat. In 2022 ...

Astronomers initially thought the building-sized 2024 YR4 had a 3% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, but later ...

If signed into law as written, the White House's proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA's budget would have some dire ...

New analyses have dramatically altered this outlook. The latest data suggests that the likelihood of the asteroid striking ...