Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

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

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

Researchers discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas — and the odds on it hitting Earth have increased since ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting Earth.