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

"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.

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

man-made debris that was purposefully catapulted into orbit. The "asteroid" they found, was the product of an Elon Musk marketing ploy. In February 2018, Musk put together a crossover of his two ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting that 2024 PT5 originated from our corner of the solar system. Astronomers first spotted the asteroid on ...

Earth has a new “mini-moon” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after us for years. Now, it has become close enough to be pulled in by our ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from, however, is a mystery. New research from geoscientists published this month in Science claims that the vast rock formed outside Jupiter’s orbit during the ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a ... is a convertible car traveling through orbit? As some spaceflight enthusiasts may recall, the ...