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

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

Scientists have issued a warning about a massive asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, that could strike the Moon in just a few years' ...

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

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

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

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

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

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.