When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

NASA is closely tracking two asteroids, 2025 VW and 2025 VC2 that are around 1-2 million miles away from the planet.

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes anomalies & ET tech theories. Facts on defense activation ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...