Earth is constantly under attack. The culprit? Asteroids, which regularly hurtle towards our planet. Often, they only just ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth safe from “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4. On Tuesday, the space agency recently placed space rock’s impact ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

The last asteroid-triggered apocalypse swiftly ended the 150-million-year reign of the mega-dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and a similarly sized comet could be just as catastrophic, Osburg says.

The world wasn’t in need of another reason to panic, but asteroid 2024 YR4 gave them ... described as a city killer or a potential apocalypse. Astronomers said there was little reason to worry.

Are we about to get rocked? NASA just increased the odds that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 will strike our planet in 2032. The space agency claimed that the dangerous space rock now has a 1 ...

That’s a 1 in 59,000 possibility of impact, meaning there is a 99.9983% chance that the asteroid will safely zip by Earth in seven years, according to NASA. The agency also shared that the new ...