Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.

Earlier this month, NASA identified an asteroid—2015 TB145—that will pass by Earth on Oct. 31, at the relatively close distance of 310,000 miles. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes that the flyby, ...

In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an asteroid from slamming into Earth. The result? Project Icarus. A detailed, ...

NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new report ...