A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100 million people live in risk corridor, Nasa data shows - Asteroid’s destructive potential is ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The central question is no longer whether an asteroid will eventually head our way, ...