The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warned that a gargantuan asteroid with enough power to level entire cities is on ...

When American astronauts go back to the moon in the next few years, they'll be checking out two enormous canyons on the south pole, which researchers say were carved by an asteroid nearly four ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting Earth just before Christmas in 2032 are rising. The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the ...

According to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, there is now a 1.9 per cent chance that a large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade to pose a potential threat of ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That’s good news ...

"Nearly four billion years ago an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton, and hit the lunar surface," David Kring, lead author of ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of ...