A large asteroid once considered the greatest known risk to Earth may now be on track for a direct hit — not on our planet, ...

On July 28, 2025—an asteroid roughly 230 feet across (think the size of a large airplane) named 2025 OW will zip past Earth ...

Earth has been cleared of an impact with the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, but there are still risks to the planet ...

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

NASA confirms the plane-sized asteroid 2025 OW will pass Earth at 47,000 mph this week, a common occurrence in our solar system.

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

The asteroid is named 2025 OW and measures approximately 210 feet in length, according to NASA. It is set to pass Earth on ...

Ted Stryk's work was recognized by the International Astronomical Union, which names bodies in the solar system.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...