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

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

NASA has released new images of a 'city-destroying' asteroid hurtling through space. This asteroid has a ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous ...

NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec ...