Which asteroids pose the greatest threat to Earth? How likely are they to strike, and what level of destruction could they ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every ...

Until now, only objects with a diameter of at least several hundred meters were known in the asteroid belt; most of them were ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

NASA has its gaze defined on a massive asteroid, almost the size of a stadium, that’s forecasted to skim past Earth at the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring three asteroids set to pass Earth on December 11, 2024. Though moving at ...

Nevertheless, to prepare for potentially dangerous asteroids, Nasa is testing its first planetary defence system called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). This project’s goal is to ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

I’m worried about the thousands of other dangerous asteroids scientists believe threaten Earth, that they cannot locate. According to experts, we should expect an asteroid large enough to cause ...

It is part of an international mission to see if we can stop dangerous asteroids hitting Earth. The project will look at what happened to a space rock called Dimorphos when Nasa intentionally ...

It’s been viewed six or seven times by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded project that identifies potentially dangerous asteroids, and was confirmed to have been projected ...