Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

Jawin is also a co-investigator on the science team of the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to a new asteroid, Apophis.] What are some of the highlights that have been ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...