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.

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

(AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking ... The good news, according to NASA, is that for now, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.

and future asteroid-spotting missions, could detect the space rocks astronomers haven’t been able to see in the past. Currently, there are no other known large asteroids that have more than a 1% ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid. ESA-Science Office Astronomers have made a startling discovery ...

Should this keep you up at night? “No, absolutely not,” said David Rankin, a comet and asteroid spotter at the University of Arizona. The object’s current odds of striking Earth may sound ...