On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

A newly identified asteroid, measuring between 40 and 100 metres wide, has been placed at the top of the asteroid risk list.

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

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

According to the researchers, the asteroid 2024 YR4, which astronomers discovered last year, is about the same size as the Tunguska meteorite, which caused the most explosive impact in human history ...

On December 22, 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 could pass by safely, coming no closer to us than 1.7 million kilometres, or over 4 ...

An asteroid the size of a football pitch could hit the Earth in seven years, astronomers have warned. The rocky object, ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Rock wider than football pitch could have devastating impact if it hits our planet – which, according to Nasa scientists, is ...

Its diameter is similar to the asteroid that caused the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908, where a meteorite explosion ...