"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 ...

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

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced “city-killer” asteroid YR4 is unlikely to collide with our planet that month, and has a 99.9961 per cent ...

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

For a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter, it was described as a potential "city killer." On its estimated ...

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some point in the near future, this risk may be out of date. The rock is 130 ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth's vicinity ... its Double Asteroid Redirection Test smashed a spacecraft into a 560-foot rock called Dimorphos, some 7 million miles away ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.