The asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a building-sized object that initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

Asteroid 2025 PM2, about 190 feet wide and travelling over 41,000 miles per hour, will make its closest pass by Earth on 27 ...

Scientists are monitoring a recently discovered asteroid which could potentially hit the Moon - and calculating its likely consequences on Earth.

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

An asteroid with the potential to cause significant damage if it hit a populated area is on course to pass between the orbits of Earth and the moon.

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth’s balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out ...