"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

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 ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

Nexstar’s KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shared how scientists tracked ...

A direct hit to the Moon by an asteroid roughly the size of a 15-story building could trigger one of the most unusual meteor events in recorded history, sending a storm of moondust toward Earth. "Up ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...