NASA alerts about an asteroid, 2014 TN17, which is 540 feet in diameter and is rushing towards the Earth at an incredible ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

There is now a 1-in-32 chance that the space rock will hit us in 2032 – with potentially disastrous consequences ...

Since the beginning of time, humans have looked up at the stars and dreamed of exploring the universe. Read more about it here: ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

He shared key facts about the asteroid with CBS News during the below conversation, which has been edited for clarity. When would the asteroid hit Earth? This asteroid passes us by every four years.