NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asteroid 2024 YR4 as captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope using both its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon. KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

A newly released map compiled by NASA’s Near Earth Object (NEO) program categorizes the impact point of every small asteroid that’s entered Earth’s atmosphere. The data was gathered by US government ...