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 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

Watch as a city-killer asteroid set to possibly crash into Earth in 2032 zooms away from Earth in new telescope footage.

A “city killer” asteroid will likely spare Earth — but still has a chance of smashing into the Moon.

NASA announced that a stadium-sized asteroid is close to Earth on Tuesday. The rocky object has a diameter of 950 feet and pass Earth by a distance of 621,000 miles.

A NASA telescope captured images of the asteroid that had a chance of hitting Earth three months ago.

How "asteroid detectives" protect Earth from potential impacts Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was discovered in December 2024, currently has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, according to NASA. The percentage was initially calculated at just 1%, and ...