Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

Earth is no longer on a collision course with asteroid 2024 YR4, but it could potentially collide with the Moon.

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

SpaceX on Sunday night launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 21 Starlink satellites into space from Florida's coast.

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...

New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...