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

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

Visualize the devastation if an asteroid struck Earth in the year 2025. Chris Hemsworth, Alzheimer's and why Hollywood is ...

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

Scientists have issued a chilling warning regarding the city-killier asteroid, 2024 YR4, currently racing toward the moon, ...

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

California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch ...

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

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

NASA is monitoring asteroids passing near Earth in November 2025. Three asteroids safely passed on 10th November, while two ...

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

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