An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

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

A scientist who has written a book on how to defend our planet from an asteroid collision, has spoken out following news of ...

As the chances of the 'city-killing' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth increase, the world's space agencies have made a rare emergency decision.

A terrifying interactive map reveals just how much of major UK cities would be flattened by the impact of the 'city killer' ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Even after nabbing the best actor Oscar in 2003 at the age of 29 for “The Pianist” — making him the youngest winner ever in the category — he ... where he is promoting the Wes Anderson film “Asteroid ...

It would be a bigger thermo-nuclear explosion than any single bomb that humankind has ever ... the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history. Catalina Sky Survey engineer and asteroid ...

The only asteroid ever to receive a higher rating was Apophis ... there would be tsunamis like we’ve never seen before, probably kilometres high. For comparison, the magnitude-9 earthquake ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

"But it deserves attention."First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 meters) across ...