Planet killer asteroids are space rocks that are 1 kilometer across or larger and could have a devastating effect on life. But smaller asteroids can cause regional devastation if they are ...

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 ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

Tesla recalls over 376,000 vehicles due to power steering defect Binzel, who developed the Torino scale for measuring the impact hazards for objects like asteroids and comets, added that scientists ...

The MPC, part of the International Astronomical Union, maintains an official catalog of near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets. It reports, names and numbers new discoveries. Multiple ...

Here’s what experts think. All asteroids orbit the sun, and some have orbital paths that cross Earth’s. That’s the case with 2024 YR4, one of about 20,000 Apollo-type asteroids that orbit ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names? Several years ago, Unistellar held a contest to name an asteroid its citizen ...