Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

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

Well he should, because those few brief seconds — in July of 1956 — gave young David Levy a star to wish upon for the rest of his life. They also seeded a lifelong passion for astronomy that comes ...

A ‘city-destroying’ asteroid is currently on a path towards Earth and could hit as soon as 2032. Now experts have modelled ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

"While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a ...

Scientists are projecting a small but significant chance that an asteroid could strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Asteroids ...

Nasa increases chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid slamming into Earth - The odds of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth have ...

A team of scientists from two universities in China synthesized a material harder than diamond in the laboratory. When carbon ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

The crash at the Marana Regional Airport, about 21 miles northwest of Tucson, is the second fatal aviation mishap this month ...

Chris Dunn, a commercial pilot and a flight instructor, has flown into Marana Regional Airport before, where the crash took ...