The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

NASA has revealed that the chances of the city-destroying asteroid known as '2024 YR4' hitting Earth when it passes by in 2032 have increased.

The International Space Station will likely be decommissioned in just a few years, meaning our space agencies are going to need another one soon. Now a former aerospace engineer has put together a ...

UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European ...

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...