Most of them do not pose any threat to Earth, but some of them have been identified as objects of interest with non-negligible collision probabilities. Among them is the asteroid Bennu with a ...

A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...

even after the immediate effects, which could include tsunamis and shock waves and fires. Dust displaced by the asteroid collision would remain in the atmosphere for months, preventing a ...

“When an asteroid is newly discovered, its trajectory can only be computed approximately, and a possible predicted collision with ... identified the immediate effects of an asteroid, including ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

The asteroid, which contains the building ... a research team modeled the effects such a collision would have on our planet, including the global climate and ecosystems across land and the oceans.

But smaller asteroids can cause regional devastation if they are determined to be on a collision course with ... be confirmed that it is a rocky asteroid, the effects would be similar to those ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small ... any potential regional effects remain far from certain. For example, over 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered ...