REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring asteroid 2025 CG, which will pass by Earth on 8 February.

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

China is assembling a 'planetary defense force' amid fears that an asteroid could strike Earth early next decade. According ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

Astronomers are turning to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of ...

In some ways, 2024 YR4 is one of the most worrying asteroids we have ever encountered. It was, for instance, given a rating ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...