It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

Pop culture is rife with depictions of asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The idea of a celestial body heading right ...

Astronomy Ireland's David Moore warned that the 100-metre-wide space rock called 2024 YR4 would be a "country killer" if it ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec ...

"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.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

The UN has activated planetary defense protocols for the first time to better determine the orbit, size, and threat posed by 2024 YR4, a rock discovered on December 27 that has a 1.6% chance of ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

Asteroid 2025 CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 ...