The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking our planet. Then a week passed and suddenly there was a new headline: ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance research and practical applications in asteroid observation, the Sharjah Academy ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Sue Nelson explores how asteroids can inform our understanding of the Earth's past – or threaten our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...