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

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

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...

NASA officials warn thousands of undetected “city killer” asteroids may be circling near Earth. With limited deflection tools ready, are we prepared if one suddenly shifts onto a collision course?

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a crater about one kilometer wide and release some 100 million metric tons of ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.