The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

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

The measure could be taken to divert a space rock being monitored by the European Space Agency, which is expected to cross ...

While these asteroids are approaching at very close distances, scientists have confirmed they pose no threat to our planet.

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...