After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely close flyby in 2029 to learn how to deflect others like it ...

Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

A Q&A with Lindley Johnson, a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will sweep briefly across ... the asteroid appears as a sharp dot of light in the 120-second exposure, compared to the background stars, which exhibit short ...