Picture the scene: An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially hazardous — sounds scary, right? Take asteroid 2026 JH2. It was first ...

Of all the near-Earth objects tracked by NASA, one asteroid holds the highest known probability of colliding with our planet. Asteroid Bennu, a roughly 500-meter-wide rubble pile, has a single date ...

Don't look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuclear asteroid defense simulations show how X-rays from a standoff blast could fracture a 160-meter asteroid. (CREDIT: ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 56,913 miles, according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the ...

Scientists are meeting this week to figure out how to stop a hypothetical asteroid traveling at 31,000 mph from hitting the Earth. NASA says this is just an exercise and there is no imminent danger of ...