Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

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

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

The system includes four telescopes around the world that hunt near-Earth objects, and its telescope in Chile was the one to make the find. It wasn't until a few days later that the object caught ...