YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based telescopes. NASA plans to use the James Webb telescope t ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.