A Q&A with Lindley Johnson, a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

There were fears a giant asteroid the size of 59 Bonos was hurtling towards Earth and could wipe Ireland out with a series of ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2023 KU, a 370-foot-wide space rock traveling at over 64,000 km/h. Expected to ...

The city-killer asteroid's Moon impact risk has almost more than doubled, according to new NASA reports. Here's what we know.

Artist's impression of ESA's Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), which will rendezvous ... More with the asteroid Apophis and accompany it through its extremely rare flyby of Earth in ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

An asteroid which could be up to 220 feet wide will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon ...

A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush with Earth—and it might even slam into the Moon. Recently, astronomers got a closer look at the giant space rock, revealing its violent ...