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

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a new update on asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing important findings that refine our understanding of its path. This asteroid, which had been a point of ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on August 16 at around 17,717 miles per hour. Known as 2025 PR1, the space rock is estimated to be about 55 feet across and will make ...