CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Scientists have upgraded the threat level of an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that doesn't mean we need to start panicking just yet. The scale ranges ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Good news for all earthlings, our home planet is likely in the clear after an asteroid was recently identified as a possible threat of hitting Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated to ...

A massive airplane-sized asteroid named (2026 JP1) is set to fly past Earth on May 20, 2026. Scientists say it is safe, but ...