NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been predicting a 4.3% chance of a direct hit.

The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, has been dubbed the "most dangerous in ...

CERNQ52, a diminutive asteroid, streaked into Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, detected by astronomers merely hours ...

A newly discovered asteroid may collide with Earth on Valentine's Day about 20 years from now, NASA officials tweeted out Tuesday. According to the space agency's Planetary Defens ...

A tiny asteroid measuring up to 5 feet across was detected hours before safely burning up over northwestern Australia. The ...

Dinosaurs didn’t see the asteroid coming that ended their 180-million year reign on the Earth, but humans had more luck ...

NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer ...

The asteroid was estimated at about 0.8 meters, and it posed zero threat to people or infrastructure on the ground.

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

Here's one less thing to worry about—or to look forward to: NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space ...

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...