The 2024 YR4 asteroid may come close to Earth, but how do experts calculate this potential impact?

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: a significant chance that a “city killer” rock could slam into the Moon ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

How do you stop a mid-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth? NASA planetary defence officer, Kelly Fast, says small space rocks hit earth regularly, but bigger rocks, of at least 140m in diameter, ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

Scientists discussed the threat of asteroids at a recent conference in Phoenix. Here's what they said.

The next asteroid won’t come with a warning siren. What happens after it’s discovered could determine everything.

The moon is pummeled by asteroids nearly every day, creating new craters constantly that can range from a few feet to many miles across. The asteroid impacts, when they’re large enough, create flashes ...