The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

Although the percentage of impact is still relatively low — a fluctuating 1%, depending on the day — astronomers won’t have ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 DU2, a 160-ft space rock traveling at 62,650 km/h, passing Earth at a distance of 542,000 km on ...

Every newly discovered asteroid is ... told the National Post it’s not because of any mistake made by astronomers. “People say, ‘Oh, you were wrong the other day.’ No, it’s the data ...

An asteroid between 130 and 300 feet wide has a ... But the agency had put the probability at 1.5% on Wednesday, and the day before that, NASA estimated the chances of a collision to be a record ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...