A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The would-be asteroid was first spotted by an amateur astronomer parsing the Minor Planet Centers' archive who hoped he had discovered a near-Earth object, Astronomy reported. The Minor Planet ...

The satellite is safely on its way to geostationary orbit, but one of the rocket's four strap-on side boosters fell to Earth in a populated ... falls from space, crashes near house, after ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...

The driver of a pickup truck had a dog in the vehicle when they hit another vehicle and then crashed into a house. The crash took out a portion of the wall and WMFR said a technical rescue team ...

MALDEN - A driver fled after crashing into a Malden home on Tuesday afternoon, completely taking off the front porch of the house. Witnesses said a black Mercedes sped down Bainbridge Street and ...