Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

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The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...

An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an ...

Researches have determined that ejecta from an ancient asteroid. strike carved out the grand canyons (Vallis Schrödinger and ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ...