Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...

It has now been downgraded to zero. The asteroid, discovered in December, measures between 40 and 90 metres across. A direct impact could devastate a city, but calculations now suggest it will ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science ... If it struck a major city, the damage would be incalculable. But even more refined calculations have now brought that ...

After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, Nasa and the European Space Agency said Tuesday. At one point, the odds of a strike ...

Close call: Earth spared from asteroid impact, but the Moon is at risk NASA warns the asteroid now has a 1.7% chance of hitting our lunar neighbor, a major jump from previous estimates.

PARIS, France — The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001%, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...

It was projected to potentially impact the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, and was found to be big enough to destroy a city. As the asteroid was observed further, its odds had briefly risen to a record ...

The crater formed by this 90 m asteroid would be approximately 2.7 km in diameter. This is just over twice the diameter of the Meteor Crater. Would this be a city killer as some reports suggested?

For a few weeks, the world watched in horror as the probability of a "city killer" asteroid called YR4 hitting Earth crept up and up. At the height of the anxiety, Nasa reportedly feared the ...