The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave the asteroid a 1.3 per cent chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

"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.

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth. It comes after an expert warned that the chance of the giant space ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...