“It’s the closest that an asteroid this large has ever come to the Earth,” says Chodas, manager of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, located in Pasadena, California.

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working. "These things come through on a ...

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see ...

As Euronews notes, those vast swathes contain some of the largest cities on Earth ... claiming the crown as the "'riskiest' asteroid ever detected." "As more observations of the asteroid are ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

That may sound small, but the probability was higher than any ever recorded ... 2024 YR4 is big enough to potentially wipe out a city. Early estimates of the asteroid’s trajectory showed it ...

this small nudge will add up over time to a big shift of the asteroid's path away from Earth. This was the first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence.

When Yuletide rolls around in 2032, you might not want to make any big plans ... one of the highest ever recorded risks of an asteroid collision. A one-in-48 risk may not sound terribly worrying ...