Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact probability with Earth means.

At the time of the announcement in January, the asteroid’s impact probability was reported to exceed 1%. The impact probability describes how likely a hazardous asteroid is to hit Earth.