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

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

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

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 ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

WATCH: NASA scientists unveil first near-Earth asteroid sample returned to U.S. Born in the years bracketing the Revelstoke meteorite’s fall, the two of us have spent our careers in the ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance ... the average rainfall would fall by 15 percent, plant photosynthesis would decrease by between 20 and ...

Astronomers say a newly discovered 196-foot asteroid has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... but predicts the chances will fall again. "We still expect that to start falling at some ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The asteroid 2024 ... Earth will eventually fall outside the swath of ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 ... but predicts that they’ll likely fall again. "We still expect that to start falling at some ...