Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

This also means that the asteroid has currently been downgraded on the Torino Scale, which is a color-coded scale that astronomers use to assess the risk of an asteroid or comet hitting Earth.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

NASA has increased the chances that a feared "city killer" asteroid could hit Earth - and warned that 100 million people live in the "risk doze" of the impending disaster. While currently only a ...