Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...