Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what ...

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch is on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

A few days ago, an asteroid was discovered that will come dangerously close to Earth in eight years' time. The probability of ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

If a small asteroid were to hit Apophis ... other asteroid being set on a path to Earth, having tested the Double Asteroid ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading ... that would cause significant regional damage if it hit the Earth," he said. "Not all NEOs are potentially hazardous, but all hazardous objects ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ... Palaeogene extinction event. In 2022, a 9-kilometre-wide crater ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...