NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

It's not great news, but you still shouldn't panic about it: Astronomers spotted a near-Earth asteroid that has a roughly 1% ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) is dedicated to identifying potential threats and developing strategies to protect Earth from asteroid impacts. In 2022, NASA’s DART mission ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The space rock, roughly 180 feet (55 metres) across - is as tall as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. NASA is deploying the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a potentially dangerous asteroid ...

So far, the most significant milestone in planetary defense, however, was achieved with NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. This operation was launched in November 2021 and was the ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

If YR4 still poses a threat as we approach 2032, we could redirect the asteroid safely away from Earth. NASA demonstrated this capability in 2022, during the space agency’s Double Asteroid ...

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...