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

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

At the end of last year astronomers detected a new asteroid named 2024 YR4 but it wasn’t like other solar system travelers.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Professor Brian Cox has suggested an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 is an "experiment" from the universe for humanity.

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA successfully sent a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning 16 ...

But the danger from an asteroid hitting Earth is not limited to ancient history. To deal with this threat, scientists recently ran an experiment to deflect a potential “city killer.” We’ll hear the ...

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

SETI Institute In the News The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and the search for ...

Officials hope that by analyzing the results of NASA's experiment, space agencies will be better positioned to repeat the maneuver. NASA is additionally working on an asteroid-hunting telescope ...