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

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

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

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

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have caused serious damage if it were to make landfall on the planet. The European Space Agency says the ...

In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...

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

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...