The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

TN17, a massive space boulder, is speeding towards Earth at a divine speed of 77,282 km/h. Approximately 540 feet (165 meters ...

"It wouldn't affect the global climate, but it would certainly be a disaster of every proportion. So we're all hoping that doesn't happen." Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

There is now a 1-in-32 chance that the space rock will hit us in 2032 – with potentially disastrous consequences ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

This would mean that if 2024 YR4 were going to hit Earth on its next closest approach in 2032, we could nudge it enough to avoid disaster. —If an asteroid really threatened the Earth ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity has only just recovered from the near-miss of asteroid YR4 ...