The estimated flight path of an asteroid the size of Big Ben’s tower will see it pass over some of the world’s most populous ...

Nasa reports that asteroid 2024 YR4's impact risk has risen to 3.1%, with a potential Earth collision on December 22, 2032.

By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...

NASA has identified asteroid 2024 YR4 with a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032. While the probability remains ...

YR₄ could hit the earth in 2024, before it passes by here again. That would be the best time for a defense mission, according ...

Update from US space agency marks significant increase from recent estimates that had probability hovering around 2% ...

NASA has assured that many objects in the past have had higher odds of striking Earth but they drop significantly in ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

AX165, a 260-foot near-Earth object, will come closer to Earth on 20 February 2025, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. The collision changed Dimorphos's orbit successfully, and now scientists hope to study the ...

NASA also has perfectly good asteroid spacecraft sitting on the shelf. The twin JANUS spacecraft, originally designed for another asteroid mission, were put in storage, their mission cancelled, when ...