Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

Argonaut is designed to deliver supplies, infrastructure and payloads to the moon. It could survive for five years on the ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

"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.

The United Nations has activated its Planetary Security Protocol for the first time in history. The catalyst for this ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

A building-sized asteroid found in 2024 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. For the first time ever, a planetary defense response is planning how to deal with the asteroid. If it did strike ...