The world is watching as NASA tweaks the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth. But how threatening is YR4, and how does ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA successfully sent a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning 16 ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

There are millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt (and perhaps just as many trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit), and some of them potentially contain precious metals worth more than all the money ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Imagine a future where deep space explorers send high-definition video messages from the surface of Mars, or where scientific ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football ... "We ...