The asteroid, named Bennu, passes close to Earth every six years. It is listed as one of NASA’s “potentially hazardous ...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The Earth could be sent into an "impact winter" if it is hit by the 500 metre wide Bennu asteroid where dust would be kicked ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

Scientists are closely monitoring a massive asteroid that could strike Earth in 2032, with the potential for catastrophic ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...