While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a celestial body roughly the size of a small building, has captured global attention due to its potential to strike Earth in 2032. Although the probability of impact remains low, ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

Good news: It's probably not going to hit Earth anymore. Bad news: It still could hit the moon — and some astronomers think NASA should blow it up. An asteroid that could be as big as the Statue of ...

If researchers one day spot an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has already demonstrated that we can change its path by smashing a spaceship ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that set to zip past the Earth at some 15,200 miles per hour. The asteroid—"2025 PY1"— will make its closest approach at just 183,000 miles from our planet, ...