According to NASA, an asteroid is labelled "potentially hazardous" based on a combination of factors: its size and how close ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

NASA confirms building-sized asteroid 2025 XV, 290 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on December 18 offering scientists a ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%. Astronomers now say a ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid with a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid is estimated to be about 40-90 meters wide, big enough to cause local devastation but not mass ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.