Apophis will pass about 38,000 kilometers from Earth in 2029, giving scientists a rare chance to watch a large asteroid react ...

A huge asteroid is likely to just miss Earth, but scientists are still worried—here's why.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A 1-megaton nuclear explosion detonated near a 160-meter asteroid produced damage and motion consistent with the object ...

Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth in 2029 ...

Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth? For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) on January 29, 2025. The early calculations predicted ...

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now, the European Space Agency says the chance of it striking ...

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, a colossal asteroid struck Earth, generating catastrophic global temperatures. As superheated debris rained down, it transformed the environment into an unbearable ...