However, NASA officials say there is a roughly 1 in 11.5 million chance of the lost asteroid crashing into Earth in October of 2024. If it does hit Earth, the asteroid would detonate with the ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

But they say the probability of the asteroid hitting Earth is just 1 in 909,000 and the risk of impact is likely to decrease as they collect more information. The newly-discovered asteroid ...

This means that, despite passing within touching distance on the solar system scale, there is absolutely no chance of the Christmas Eve asteroid hitting Earth. And while that is good news for ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

It is the finding of scientists that indicates the much bigger impact about 3.3 billion years ago-most likely aiding life to thrive-throwing into yet another perspective that space rocks had in the ...

Even if they were PHAs, this classification doesn't necessarily mean an asteroid is actually at risk of hitting our planet ... into one that has a chance of impacting Earth.

Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely originated from the asteroid ... a meteorite. By chance, he had planned ...