potentially hazardous asteroids

The clock is officially ticking.

An asteroid that whizzed within 3 million miles of Earth last week turned out to be two objects in a binary system,…

The European Space Agency has approved the budget of Hera, the European component of a mission to slam a spacecraft…

NASA will begin developing a space-based telescope to track the asteroids near Earth, according to a statement by…

This week, an asteroid flew by the Earth, coming as close as 44342 miles away. No, you shouldn’t worry about this…

Breaking news for all you doomsday lovers out there: The 20-50 meter asteroid 2006 QV8 will NOT hit the Earth on…

If you really want to prepare for an asteroid impact, you might as well simulate some of the worst possible outcomes—…

While space agencies simulate an asteroid impact this week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, there’s a real…

NASA, FEMA, and other national and international agencies are once again gearing up for a hypothetical asteroid…

On October 12, 2017, a 20-meter asteroid passed just 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles) from Earth. For weeks, dozens…

We’ve long said that humans generally worry about the wrong asteroids. Tabloids love to publish headlines about…

A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide…

An asteroid approximately the size of a football field flew close by Earth only a day after it was first spotted…

NASA has put together an image showing the orbits of all known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) currently…