"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.

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking our planet. Then a week passed and suddenly there was a new headline: ...

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

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 ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

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