Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Rock wider than football pitch could have devastating impact if it hits our planet – which, according to Nasa scientists, is ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...