"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.
According to scientists, the asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day and passed near around 500,000 miles.