When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

The Leonid meteor shower is about to hit its 2025 peak activity this November. Here's everything to know about the annual ...

Scientists are considering possible deflection scenarios, including detonating a nuclear bomb near the asteroid.

Scientists have issued a chilling warning regarding the city-killier asteroid, 2024 YR4, currently racing toward the moon, ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes anomalies & ET tech theories. Facts on defense activation ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...