"We still expect that to start falling at some point. People should absolutely not worry about this yet," Rankin told Space.com. Predicting exactly where an asteroid is likely to end up is pretty ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

That is around twice the distance of the Moon. Even if 2024 YR4 did collide ... the chances of impact will rise and then fall. For example, the asteroid Apophis was considered one of the most ...

It formed when an asteroid or possibly even ... The rest comprises a row of craters made as falling rocks were thrown out from the impact. They fell back to the Moon to create so-called ...

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

Asteroid headed towards Earth could smash into the Moon, scientists say - Nasa expects chances of Earth collision to be ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for ...

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 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...