NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe, which will soon unveil secrets of a near-Earth asteroid, has sent stunning pictures of the Earth and ...

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

NASA has identified 2025 MM as part of the Aten group, a family of asteroids that regularly cross Earth’s orbital path.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...