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

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.

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

In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...

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

NASA is monitoring asteroids passing near Earth in November 2025. Three asteroids safely passed on 10th November, while two are approaching on 11th November. All objects remain at safe distances.

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

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