Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

Here is NASA's prediction as what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like, as the date and location of a potential 2032 collision are ...

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...

Countless celestial objects traverse the cosmos, each with its own unique characteristics and potential impact, literally, on Earth. Among ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

While Astronomics does fall into the "job as game" category, it's a good job that starts off fairly basic and expands as it ...

Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 39m and 90m long will impact the Earth ...

Scientists comment on asteroid 2024 YR4 which may hit Earth in 2032. Prof Martin Ward, Emeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy, Durham University, said: ...