Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth with enough force to destroy a small country have been increased to 1 in 43.

NASA scientists are already finding ways to make sure that the end of the world will not be caused by an asteroid.

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall through Earth's atmosphere and promptly ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid ... between three to four years—because the impact would inject 100-400 million tons of dust into the atmosphere.

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 ...

While experts had anticipated the probability of impact to rise, they now anticipate that the chances of a collision will likely decrease significantly as more details about the asteroid’s orbit ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be helping to track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid ... it estimated that such an impact would inject 100-400 million tons of dust into the atmosphere, causing ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1% ...