On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Scientists are ...

A CHILLING simulation video has revealed the devastating impact a ‘city-killer’ asteroid would have if it hit Earth. Asteroid ...

On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, flattening 80 million trees. Scientists now believe it was an iron asteroid that skimmed Earth's surface and rebounded into space.

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

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

The newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR is being taken seriously by scientists at NASA who say it's got a legit shot at ...

The one silver lining is that Dr. Rankin’s forecast is slightly less dire than current estimates, which assert that YR4 has a ...

The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters exploded over Siberia ... rather than leaving a crater on the ground.

HEIGHT 611 is the mountainside where locals watched a blazing red ball flying half-a-mile above ground suddenly plunge into ...