In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Another city-killer asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth completely undetected, a space agency chief had warned. Luca ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

He's talking about the Chelyabinsk meteor, an asteroid which scorched through Earth's atmosphere in 2013 and smashed through the icy plains of southern Russia. Luca said: “It didn’t hit ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...