"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked "out of the ordinary", you would come up with ...

Planet killer asteroids are space rocks that are 1 kilometer ... Acquiring more data, like refining the space rock’s trajectory, may reduce the odds of a direct hit to zero.

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

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

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as a potential "city killer." On its estimated ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...