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

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

There is an estimated 3.1% chance that the 2024 YR4 asteroid is heading our way. Here's everything you need to know about the space rock - including how much damage it could actually cause.

a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic ...