The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Within the next decade, space agencies plan to ... ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

What would be the likely outcome of an asteroid colliding with Earth ... A land strike would create a massive fireball, whereas an impact in water would see the world engulfed in a tidal wave ...

An enormous asteroid impact is the prime suspect of Gregory Retallack, a geologist at the University of Oregon. The collision would have sent billions of particles into the atmosphere, he explains.

A cold front will cross the area later this evening. Out ahead of the front, we will have a chance of scattered showers from midday through early evening. The high today will be 66. It will be ...