On average, one or two space rocks large enough to cataclysmically impact ... NASA is launching a spacecraft next year to conduct the first test of one promising strategy for stopping a killer ...

The asteroid ... from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make a precise calculation of Bennu’s orbit and its future proximity to our home planet. The researchers then analyzed the impact hazard ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated one million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

In fact, YR4 now has a higher chance of crashing into the moon that year, with odds standing at 1.7%, according to NASA. "There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet ...

Although 2025 JR is not classed as a potentially hazardous asteroid due to its small size, a collision with the Earth would create serious damage. Should asteroid 2025 JR hit our planet, the result ...

Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than ... the asteroid’s orbit are obtained, its impact probability will become better known," NASA said in a recent blog post.

In January 2025 NASA made an important announcement. An asteroid had just been detected by a telescope in Chile, passing by at just twice as far from Earth as the moon. And based on available ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts.