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 ...

Just days after the Geminid meteor shower, the asteroid from which it comes, 3200 Phaethon, will pass close to Earth. What is it? Asteroid 3200 Phaethon, discovered in 1983, is named for its close ...

In September 2025, asteroid 2025 FA22 will make a rare, once-in-a-decade close approach to Earth. Discovered by the Pan-STARRS 2 observatory in Hawaii on March 29, 2025, this sizable asteroid is ...

One of the keyhole probability maps of the asteroid Bennu, The crosshair corresponds to the location on the surface that minimises the asteroid impact hazard after deflection. The maps assume a ...

An asteroid will reportedly reach Earth's orbit this weekend. According to The Hill, the asteroid, 4660 Nereus, will come within 2.5 million miles of Earth on Dec. 11. That's about 10-times the ...

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

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...