Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

On December 22, 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

NASA is tracking an asteroid the size of a bus that will shoot past Earth going 35,000 miles per hour on Tuesday. That's more ...

If we do find that a city killer is barreling toward us, there are only three possible outcomes: the asteroid hits the planet ... sending astronauts to the moon and Mars ranked at the bottom ...

NASA is keeping a close eye on three vehicle-sized asteroids that will make close approaches to Earth today. The trio was ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...