On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

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

The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

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

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has backed a mission to Mars to investigate the remarkable 'square structure' (pictured) that was ...

Scientists have newly discovered an asteroid, around 130 to 300 meters wide, that has greater than 1% chance of impacting the Earth.