Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

a small near Earth asteroid that could be metallic. The spacecraft, called Odin, will fly by the asteroid about 300 days after launch. Odin is flying as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 launch ...

If the asteroid is rocky or rubble-like, it could largely break up in Earth's atmosphere, but still create powerful atmospheric explosions. If it's a metallic asteroid, it could pummel the surface ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...

To learn about an asteroid – a rocky or metallic object in orbit around the Sun – we started with a study of meteorites. Asteroids like Bennu are rocky or metallic objects in orbit around the Sun.

Is Earth in danger of getting hit by another asteroid that wipes out living creatures? Not quite. Astronomers at space agencies around the world are closely watching ...

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...