In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...

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

Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

This automated software calculates if there is a chance, high or low, that the asteroid could impact the planet within the next century, using every new observation of the asteroid to continually ...

"There is no significant potential for this asteroid to impact our planet for the next century," the space agency added in a ...

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

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

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

The average impact velocity for an asteroid on Earth is a whopping 17 ... and they don't really help us figure out when the next one might happen. As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...