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

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 ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

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