Asteroid 2024 YR4 was estimated at up to 300 feet across, with early calculations giving it a 1-in-45 chance of striking ...

An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video explores various aspects of asteroids, including: - The catastrophic impact of ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will sweep just 19,400 miles above Earth — closer than geostationary satellites — and be visible to the naked eye.

Asteroid 2026 SA8 flyby today: a 7-meter near-Earth asteroid passes within 0.99 lunar distances of Earth, providing a live ...

An asteroid by the name of 2023 JK is expected to zip past Earth on Sunday, missing our planet by just a little over a million miles. According to NASA, 2023 JK is roughly the size of a commercial jet ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a ...

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), based in Washington, D.C., coordinates the agency's work to identify and ...

There’s probably a large space rock out there, somewhere, that has Earth in its crosshairs. Scientists have, in fact, spotted one candidate: Bennu, which has a small chance of banging into our planet ...

A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...