As the chances of the 'city-killing' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth increase, the world's space agencies have made a rare emergency decision.

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

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Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

Scientists warn that an asteroid named 2024 YR4 might hit Earth on December 2, 2032. The chances are now 2.3%. The impact ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

A violent hailstorm caused severe damage and power outages in the Argentinian city of Bahía Blanca at the beginning of ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Two weeks before his death in 2018, Stephen Hawking issued a chilling warning about the future of Earth, and now NASA has ...