Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

European Space Agency says milestone highlights both Earth’s vulnerability and advances in planetary-defense science - ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the discovery of the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, a lot more are still out there.

The Leonid meteor shower is hitting its 2025 peak activity this November. What to know about the annual celestial display; ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.