A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Forget climate change or another global pandemic, scientists fear a giant asteroid that could destroy an area the size of ...

A large asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA and the ...

An asteroid of similar size to the smallest estimate struck Siberia in 1908 and destroyed an area of 800 square miles, twice ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

THE IMPORTANCE OF UPSKILLING 65 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth, wiping out a vast number of dinosaur species. However, a small group of dinosaurs managed to survive the ...

There's a slim chance a sizeable asteroid could collide with our planet in 2032, and it's fair to wonder why the powers that ...

The find was made by an amateur fossil hunter on the Cliffs of Stevns, which offers “exceptional evidence” of the meteorite impact on Earth about 65 million years ago that brought an end to ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...