Neil deGrasse Tyson has claimed an asteroid is heading towards Earth and could destroy the West Coast of America.

The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...

How many people do you think have ever been hit by a meteorite? The running count is...one. And here's where it happened.

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

An asteroid passing relatively close to Earth is more common than most ... At only 66 feet wide, this fireball meteor caused a shock wave that hit the city, shattering glass and resulting in ...

Bennu has practically no chance of hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our planet’s gravity could tweak the asteroid’s orbit enough to ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the ...

The 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 may not be on a collision course with Earth anymore. But NASA has raised the odds of it ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Back in December 2024, when YR4 was first discovered, the danger was greater. It showed a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth.

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...