The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made.

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

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 Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The ...

Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall through Earth's atmosphere and promptly burn up. Every year, on average, an "automobile-sized asteroid" plummets through our ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

Measuring approximately 40 to 100 metres wide, people have been nicknaming the asteroid ‘the city destroyer’ as it has the ...