"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward ... scenario is that the asteroid will pass within just 167,000 miles of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles ...

On Wednesday February 19, the waning Moon darkened skies which allowed astronomers to see the asteroid with ground-based telescopes again ... which is the second highest rating ever given to ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

To capture such a distant object the, team “took 12 200-second ... the asteroid was faint, necessitating the use of large telescopes to observe it. Another hurdle was the fact that the moon ...