The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to hit the “doomsday asteroid” with a nuclear bomb and destroy ...

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...

Researchers at NASA are proposing to blow up an asteroid headed for the moon in 2032 that could significantly impact satellites orbiting Earth ...

Earth has dodged a celestial bullet, but the moon might not be so lucky, and that has scientists keeping their telescopes and minds trained on a massive asteroid called “2024 YR4.” That’s not its ...

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

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 ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

More than 50,000 meteorites have been found on Earth, scientists say, but only one has been documented to have hit a person. On June 26, when people across several states in the South reported seeing ...