NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

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

Low as their risk may be, asteroid impacts continue rank among the biggest threats to Earth from space, and pretty huge ones have hit Earth several times in the past. To learn more about the biggest ...

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 ...

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

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the public about the threats space rocks pose to Earth.

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

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...

NASA scientists recently expressed alarm over the potential threat posed by approximately 15,000 undetected asteroids capable ...