Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032.