The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

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

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more than 20 years.

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

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

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 CG, set to pass Earth safely today at about 1.3 million miles away ...