"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

: An asteroid, estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, has a chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. According to NASA, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a low probability of hitting Earth ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

NASA was recently tracking a large asteroid, known as the "city killer," after finding a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.