Another city-killer asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth completely undetected, a space agency chief had warned. Luca ...

Most people know the theory that an asteroid smashed into Earth — hitting what is now the Yucatán Peninsula — and killed off ...

The spectacle came after SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a failure during ascent, sending fragments into the atmosphere.

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

They photographed the rock star ahead of its world tour. A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision ...

"Currently, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a very small chance ... 1 week ago FAA issues ground stop after SpaceX loses contact with Starship 8 minutes into launch March 6 (UPI) -- Scientists lost contact ...

Her work previously appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, Eater and other publications. Getty NASA has considerably lowered the risk of the asteroid 2024 YR4’s ...

But if the asteroid does head our way, it could be his company, SpaceX, that comes to the rescue. In response to one user on X, Musk said that SpaceX's super-heavy Starship rockets could be 'ideal ...

nearly as bad as the destruction of Alderaan in Star Wars. The highest ranking of an asteroid was 99942 Apophis, which briefly reached level 4 on the scale for a few days after its discovery in 2004.

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...