In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Close to the moon's south pole ... larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting asteroid or comet hit the lunar surface, it ...

YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

If the asteroid does hit the planet, NASA said its potential impact sites could include areas over the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea ...

An asteroid is coming close to Earth in the future — but officials urge the public not to panic. Just days after astronomers initially insisted that the likelihood of a direct hit of the planet ...

That is around twice the distance of the Moon. Even if 2024 YR4 did ... space rock after a precise analysis of the asteroid’s orbit. Earth gets hit by an asteroid of this size around every ...