Football field-sized asteroid could hit Earth in 2032 but probably won’t ... are dealing with an exponentially larger span of space compared to the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.

If you look at the fraction, the size of the Earth — which is inside the uncertainty area — is compared to the entire area of the uncertainty of where the asteroid could be in that critical ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

"The size of the Earth — which is inside the uncertainty area — is compared to the entire area of the uncertainty of where the asteroid could be in that critical moment in time. This equated ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

While this is still comparatively low-risk compared to other options, it's much more significant than initially anticipated. NASA calculated that the asteroid will be nearest to the Earth and the ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...

If the asteroid does head for Earth and is of a size that could cause devastation ... detonate with hundreds of times the force of the Hiroshima bomb. It has been compared to the Tunguska strike, ...